Category: Leuser Ecosystem

Vancouver, Canada. November 9, 2018.Today marks the public launch of a new online tool that will enable global companies, including H&M, Kimberly-Clark, Inditex/Zara and DK Books, to identify where Ancient and Endangered Forests are in the world. ForestMapper, developed by international environmental not-for-profit Canopy, is the first-ever interactive map of its kind and is designed … Continued

This article was published by Bloomberg. Leading designers and retailers supported a nonprofit’s effort to help ease the search for unsavory suppliers active in endangered forests. No one dies for fashion in greater numbers than, it turns out, the trees. More than 150 million are cleared every year, shipped around the world, then pulped and processed … Continued

Politicians and environmentalists from Aceh visit B.C. to learn about Great Bear Rainforest By Bethany Lindsay There are more than 12,000 kilometres between the Great Bear Rainforest and the jungles of the Leuser ecosystem in northern Sumatra — more than a quarter of the Earth’s circumference. Even in winter, the temperature rarely drops below 25 … Continued

CANADA’S GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST OFFERS MODEL TO SAVE ORANGUTANS & TIGERS Vancouver, Canada. September 10, 2018. The Spirit bear of the Great Bear Rainforest and the Orangutan of the Leuser Ecosystem in Indonesia just made a connection. An Aceh-Indonesian Government delegation has committed to taking the necessary steps to establish a conservation-based economy to save … Continued