Would you wash elephants if you knew about the physical and psychological torture required to bring them into submission?
Would you buy palm oil products if you knew about palm oil deforestation which has killed +100.000 orangutans?
Our environmental blog is all about raising environmental and social awareness. Small changes can make a big difference. Let's together protect the environment and help local communities.
Recent cyclone-driven floods and landslides have devastated parts of Sumatra, leaving hundreds dead, many missing, and whole villages cut off and short of food and clean water. We are collecting relief funds and use 100% of donations to personally buy food supplies in Bukit Lawang and transport them to affected communities in Aceh. Help Flood […]
Step into the only place in the world where tigers, elephants, rhinos, and orangutans roam free together: the Leuser Ecosystem. Spanning an area in North Sumatra nearly the size of Belgium, this primary rainforest is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth. Yet, its unique allure also draws the attention of illegal poaching in […]
Tangkahan is a remote village in Gunung Leuser National Park (Sumatra) and is famous for its elephant sanctuary. The elephants have in the past been used for logging trees. As the logging destroyed the rainforest and triggered stricter environmental regulations, locals were forced to look for new ways to make money: The Tangkahan Elephant Sanctuary. […]
With the increasing environmental awareness of travellers, ecotourism has received more attention. Sometimes it is referred to as “sustainable tourism”, “ethical tourism” or “responsible tourism”. But what is ecotourism really? How does it help the environment? Isn’t it best for the nature if there is no tourism at all? Here we discuss its definition, we […]
To curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, many countries have at the time of writing imposed social distancing restrictions, strongly affecting the travel & tourism sectors. While a luxury for travellers, tourism is the primary source of income for many locals in Indonesia. Their incomes have been wiped off by as much as 100%, […]
The global surge in demand for palm oil is the leading cause of deforestation in Sumatra and Borneo, threatening endangered plants and animals including orangutans. We want to enhance consumer awareness about how our daily habits are the root cause of this irreversible rainforest destruction and explain how a small change in our behaviour could […]
