Orangutan News: Sumatran Road Plan Could Spell a Dark Chapter for Ecosystem

photo courtesy of Terry Sunderland CIFOR
photo courtesy of Terry Sunderland CIFOR

By  for Forests News Cifor

Bogor, Indonesia – In at least one way, it’s a place right out of a storybook.

A patch of Indonesian forest is the last ecosystem on Earth where nearly every iconic animal from Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” still co-exists.

Unfortunately, there is no storybook ending in sight for the Leuser Ecosystem in steamy, mountainous northern Sumatra.

The current Aceh Spatial Plan—an expansion of the former Ladia Galaska road construction scheme—is slated to slice through highly sensitive areas of the Leuser Ecosystem in Sumatra’s Aceh and Northern Sumatra provinces.

This excerpt from a news article appeared in and is courtesy of Forests News and can be read in its entirety here.

 

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