The two elephants were found dead in the Indonesian province of Bengkulu, in an area of "production forest" in southern Sumatra.

The establishment of the National Park Management Financing Innovation Task Force has sparked serious concerns about the direction of environmental governance.

Rhett Ayers Butler – Stop telling people to protect wildlife. Start paying them instead.

Theresia Sufa, Jakarta – Sumatran and Kalimantan elephants are now critically endangered as their habitat areas have been reduced from 42 to 21, Forestry Ministry Raja Juli Antoni told

Erik Hoffner – Protecting nature is still a struggle due to funding gaps that governments across developing countries are struggling to close. Indonesia is no exception.

Bangkok – A decade-long study tracking dozens of whale sharks off Indonesia's coast has revealed the secrets of their migrations and two hotspots where they gather year-round.

Defara Dhanya, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto has appointed his brother, Hashim Djojohadikusumo, as the Chairperson of the Task Force for Innovation in National Park Financing and

Isaaq Tomkins – The critically endangered Sumatran orangutan has been filmed for the first time using a canopy bridge to cross a road.

Bangka, Indonesia – Residents of a centuries-old coastal settlement in the world's largest tin-mining outpost – Bangka Island – fear that the environmental damage over just a few decade

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Jakarta – The East Java Police Special Crimes Investigation Directorate (Reskrimsus) has dismantled a smuggling syndicate trading in protected endemic Indonesian s

Isabel Esterman – In Kapuas Hulu district in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province, a pilot program is attempting to change how people living in Borneo perceive and engage with wildlife

Philip Jacobson, Jakarta – A palm oil company is ramping up its destruction of forests that are home to critically endangered orangutans in a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve on the island of B

Jakarta – Customs inspectors at the Indonesian capital's main port uncovered more than 3 metric tons of pangolin scales in a shipping container bound for Cambodia in late February, in o

Philip Jacobson, Jakarta – Environmental experts and activists have slammed plans for carbon and tourism projects in an Indonesian park that's home to critically endangered tigers, rhin

Philip Jacobson, Jakarta – A new report by Mongabay and independent journalism organization Bellingcat has uncovered several Facebook groups selling protected species in Indonesi

Central Aceh, Indonesia – A Sumatran elephant found dead in Indonesia's Central Aceh district in late February was the latest case of electrocution to kill one of Indonesia's remaining

Indonesia – The rising popularity of songbird singing competitions in Indonesia has led to the dramatic decline of the white-rumped shama, a bird known locally as murai batu.

Irsyan Hasyimd, Jakarta – The Aceh Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) in Indonesia confirmed the discovery of a Sumatran elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus) dead in a commu

Sharon Guynup – With an evolutionary history of more than 200 million years, turtles and tortoises have outlived dinosaurs and persisted on the planet despite mass extinction events.

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Suryadi M Nur, Jakarta – The Directorate of Special Crimes (Ditreskrimsus) of the Riau Regional Police is investigating the death of a Sumatran elephant within the PT Riau Andalan Pulp

Ahmad Fikri (Kontributor), Jakarta – Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni has officially revoked the conservation permit of the Tamansari Wildlife Foundation (YMT), the current management

Bambang Ismoyo, Jakarta – Indonesia has allocated $120 million to support conservation, development, and maintenance efforts at Way Kambas National Park in Lampung province.

Basten Gokkon – Indonesian authorities have detained five people in connection with the alleged illegal hunting and shooting of an endangered Javan leopard in the Gunung Sanggabuana con

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar – Authorities in Bali have thwarted an attempt to smuggle thousands of birds onto the resort island.

Handewi Pramesti, Bali – Growing up in Central Jakarta in the 1970s, I remember the glow of fireflies, or kunang-kunang, twinkling in the field full of banana trees in front of my house

Nur Janti, Jakarta – The iconic raptor, the Javan hawk-eagle (Nisaetus bartelsi), is facing mounting risks from habitat degradation that threatens its remaining populations, according t

Basten Gokkon – Conservation officials have announced the death the first Javan rhino ever translocated as part of Indonesia's conservation program, marking a setback for efforts to pro

Gloria Dickie – A small brown line snakes its way through the rainforest in northern Sumatra, carving 300 metres through dense patches of meranti trees, oak and mahua.

Jakarta – Amid the doom and gloom characterizing recent global events, rare, positive, albeit pungent, news has bloomed from a forest in West Sumatra.

Rizal Harahap and Theresia Sufa, Pekanbaru – Amid relentless deforestation and rising human – elephant conflict, two more Sumatran elephant calves have died in Aceh and Riau, deepening

Budiman, Jakarta – Musofa, a male Javan rhinoceros, died shortly after his historic relocation from its habitat to the Javan Rhino Study and Conservation Area (JRSCA) in Ujung Kulon Nat

Irsyan Hasyim, Jakarta – Massive deforestation occurring in the natural landscape of Seblat, Bengkulu, Indonesia, has raised serious concerns among conservation experts, including Burha

Riyad Dafhi Rizki, Rendy Tisna, Banjarmasin, Indonesia – A growing coalition of Indigenous communities, students and civil society organizations from Borneo is rallying against fast-mov

Carolyn Cowan, Medan, Indonesia – Two infant siamang gibbons cling to each other.

Effendi Rusli, Pekanbaru – An eight-year-old girl named Citra has fallen into a coma after being trampled by a wild elephant in Rantau Panjang, Rumbai District, Pekanbaru, Riau, early T

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Basten Gokkon – A rare sighting of a baby dugong off Alor in East Nusa Tenggara has sparked renewed attention to the importance of protecting Indonesia's seagrass ecosystems and marine

Junaidi Hanafiah, Central Tapanuli, Indonesia – Since it was first described by scientists in 2017, the Tapanuli orangutan, one of the world's rarest great apes, was believed to live on

Pribadi Wicaksono (Kontributor), Jakarta – Wildlife researcher and Professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Gadjah Mada University (UGM), Raden Wisnu Nurcahyo, urged the Indon

Jakarta – A leopard was captured on Monday after it wandered into a hotel complex in a popular holiday destination in Bandung, West Java, sparking panic among guests.

Heather Physioc, Nusa Penida, Indonesia – Two young conservation workers rattle up on a motorbike and dismount at the edge of a coconut grove.

Antara, Riau – The Special Criminal Investigation Directorate of the Riau Regional Police has deployed an investigative team to probe the sudden death of an elephant calf named Kalistha

Effendi Rusli, Pekanbaru – Police in Pekanbaru, Riau, raided a slaughterhouse that had been illegally selling dog meat for at least two years, arresting two suspects on Jalan Harapan Ra

Basten Gokkon – Researchers have developed the first model to map how supply and demand interact in Indonesia's highly lucrative songbird trade, revealing patterns that could help curb

Sabhrina Gita Aninta (The Conversation) – Animal populations on small islands are often thought to be unlikely to survive in the long term.

Aimee Gabay – A camera trap in an Indonesian mountain forest has recorded a rare Javan leopard, sparking renewed conservation monitoring efforts in the area.

Basten Gokkon – In their latest study, a group of researchers from Indonesia, the U.K., and the U.S.

Andi Adam Faturahman, Jakarta – The Ministry of Forestry said it's working with various agencies to prevent illegal trade of sea turtles in Bali.

Raden Putri Alpadillah Ginanjar, Jakarta – The Central Kalimantan Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) evacuated a male orangutan named Sugiman after receiving a report from re