Indonesia says intervention in notorious Sumatran national park part of new ‘model’ PELALAWAN, Indonesia — A radical new policy to relocate people living in a notoriously deforested national park on Sumatra has moved hundreds of families to date, with Indonesian officials presenting ...

Efforts to protect Sumatran elephants and Sumatran tigers in Sumatra are complicated. Moving palm oil farmers outside the protected area to new land is slowly starting.
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Living With Giants - bioGraphic How Indonesia’s “village of elephant hunters” became a model for other rural communities trying to coexist with one of the planet’s largest land mammals.

"Over centuries, Sumatran elephants helped shape what is known today as the Leuser ecosystem, home of the last remaining old-growth forests in Sumatra."
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