Sumatran road plan could spell a dark new chapter for storied ecosystem: study

  BOGOR, Indonesia—In at least one way, it’s a place right out of a storybook. A patch of Indonesian forest is the last ecosystem on Earth where nearly every iconic animal from Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” still co-exists. Unfortunately, there is no storybook ending in sight for the Leuser Ecosystem in steamy, mountainous northern Sumatra.... Read more

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