According to new research, ecotourism can only effectively contribute to the conservation of orangutans and other critically endangered animals if it generates enough revenue to offset logging revenue. It can also use some of the profits to support efforts to return human-wildlife conflict-affected animals to their natural habitats. Understanding how the term ecotourism is commonly [...]
Aceh is undeniably to be the region with the largest numbers of Sumatran elephant population on Sumatra Island. Deforestation in some areas bordering Gunung Leuser National Park that have become home to Sumatran elephants (Elephas maximus sumatranus) is also seriously impacted. Until today, since December 2022, what we have learned from massive hidden deforestation in [...]
Before human settlement in Bukit Lawang began in the 1960s, animals that already lived there and in Gunung Leuser National became native inhabitants. Animals have been present in the core area and the buffer zones that are now human settlements since the beginning, and those who came here transformed the area into houses, hotels, inns, [...]
My first visit to Bukit Lawang was prompted by a quick plan to follow two American biologists who were intrigued by the orange-furred great apes' inability to jump and instead swinging from one tree to another by holding all the strong, flexible branches. It was my birthday trip on November 29, 2010, 12 years ago, [...]
Mina has contributed a long story to Bukit Lawang, during her lifetime. Most guides and foreign or domestic tourists had their own stories to tell when Mina comes to their minds. I got my own stories too to tell, she destroyed a Canon and my Samsung S6 Edge. Mina was considered to be a successful [...]
