It’s because of a random strand of hair discovered somewhere in the dense Indonesian rainforest that scientists believe Javan ...

Did you find it?” a researcher asked Pablo Sinovas, who believed he rediscovered the creature during a two-day jungle trek. “I have looked for it for 20 years.” ...

Indonesia plans to clear an area of rainforest the size of Belgium for sugarcane-based bioethanol and food crops ...

Demand for their scales has pushed these anteaters to the brink. But why aren’t more conservationists working to protect them ...

Travelling to see great apes in the wild is nothing less than a family holiday. Whether you're off to Africa to visit gentle giants or south-east Asia for charismatic redheads, encounters with our ...

G Adventures launches 20 new trips in Indonesia, representing the company's most exciting and biggest product developments to ...

Credit: Simon Topp. In the Amazon, gold mining is a thriving business, pushing deep into the rainforest and indigenous lands. Small-scale operations set up primarily illicitly and operated in the ...

Nearly half of Indonesia’s peatlands are vulnerable to flooding due to degradation caused by unchecked exploitation, with 6 million hectares (15 million acres) — an area twice the size of Belgium — ...

Komodo National Park is selected as one of the New 7 wonders of the natural world. This biosphere reserve and the national park covers a vast tropical rainforest in northern Sumatra with various ...

The Gardners were vacationing at the Arenas Del Mar Beachfront & Rainforest Resort, which is along Costa Rica's Pacific coast, some 50 miles south of San José. "We are deeply saddened by this ...

Tsunami concerns had been raised, not by the earthquake in Mandalay, but by several relatively minor quakes at Banda Aceh, at the northern tip of Sumatra, over the weekend, Governor Sophon noted.