The Future is Forest Free Supply Chains

Walk through Leuser's forests and you may witness families of orangutans swinging through the canopy, where orangutan mothers guide their young through the tradition of nest-building. As you venture deeper, you might glimpse one of the fewer than 80 remaining Sumatran rhinoceroses moving quietly through the underbrush, or tiger cubs carefully following their fathers' silent pawprints along ancient forest corridors. Nearby, elephant calves play as their mothers spray cooling water over their sun-warmed skin, creating moments of pure wilderness magic in this extraordinary ecosystem.

With towering ancient trees, winding rivers, and vibrant wildlife, the Leuser Ecosystem sustains life itself. These forests form part of Earth’s life-sustaining systems: they are sources of clean water to millions of people, they buffer floods and landslides, and their old-growth trees store massive amounts of carbon helping to shield the planet from climate change.

Twenty-seven Indigenous communities call this part of the coast home, their cultures evolving alongside the Leuser Ecosystem.

Canopy stands at the forefront of forest conservation by pioneering a powerful market-based approach that protects Ancient and Endangered Forests, including the 2.6 million hectares of the Leuser Ecosystem it’s working to protect alongside local leaders and NGOs.

Through strategic partnerships with over 950 companies representing $2.1 trillion in revenue, Canopy transforms global supply chains through its campaigns CanopyStyle and Pack4Good, eliminating ancient forest fibre from textiles and packaging.