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Pekanbaru, Indonesia – After an amazing five of the seven wild cat species found on the Indonesian island of Sumatra were recently caught on camera in tract of forest being rapidly lost to ...

A decade of protection and natural regeneration of tropical forests has helped bird populations increase in the southern lowlands of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, a new study says. However, it adds that ...

The Nature Center’s returning Seasonal Naturalist, Julie Henry, is a wildlife and landscape photographer. She is also a conservationist, and co-founder of Saving Wild Sumatra ...