"RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK RELEASES EVIDENCE LINKING MUSIM MAS TO DEFORESTATION IN LEUSER ECOSYSTEM; SAYS APPROVAL OF ACEH SPATIAL PLAN ON NEW PRESIDENT’S DESK WOULD BE ‘DISASTROUS’ "
San Francisco, CA - A new report released today by Rainforest Action Network (RAN) exposes the imminent threats to Indonesia’s high conservation priority Leuser Ecosystem and outlines the steps needed to protect endangered species and community livelihoods from encroaching industrial development. The report documents the growing number of companies operating legally and illegally within the protected Leuser Ecosystem, including over thirty palm oil companies alone.
Titled, ""The Last Place on Earth"" Exposing the Threats to the Leuser Ecosystem: A Global Biodiversity Hotspot Deserving Protection, the report contains newly released information from case studies, supply chain research and on the ground investigations. The report names the companies responsible for the conflict and deforestation eating away at the edges of the vast but threatened ecosystem.
