At least seven people have died in a landslide triggered by torrential rain in Indonesia’s Sumatra island, officials said on ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

The Leuser Ecosystem is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northern Sumatra and one of the largest single continuous blocks of tropical rainforest left in the whole of south-east Asia. It is also ...

By Aimee Gabay Parties members of the European People’s Party (EPP), a large center-right political party, received political ...

If one were to fly low over the north of Jambi in Sumatra every 800 years ... a contrast to the carpet of dark green tropical rainforest, alongside the Batanghari River, busy with trading boats.

The international research team established 52 tree islands of varying sizes and diversity of planted trees in a conventional ...

Indiana Law Review 38(3): 595–617. Hitchcock, P. and K. Meyers. 2006. Report on the IUCN-UNESCO World Heritage Monitoring Mission to the Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra, Indonesia. Gland: ...

The “Saving Jane” advert released on Wednesday shows an animated version of the zoologist saving up money in a pension pot to visit a tropical rainforest in Sumatra, Indonesia, only to ...

Having examined Document WHC-14/38.COM/7A, Recalling Decision 37 COM 7A.14, adopted at its 37th session (Phnom Penh, 2013), Commends the State Party for the development of an Emergency Action Plan, ...

As fires rage in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, the south-east Asian nation ... in Indonesia - home to some of the world's oldest tropical forests - bringing with it its worst annual fire season ...