{"id":5362,"date":"2015-03-04T04:25:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T04:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/?p=5362"},"modified":"2025-10-14T19:42:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:42:27","slug":"orangutan-news-sumatran-road-plan-could-spell-a-dark-chapter-for-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/orangutan-news-sumatran-road-plan-could-spell-a-dark-chapter-for-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"Orangutan News: Sumatran Road Plan Could Spell a Dark Chapter for Ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5363\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5363\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Orangutan3-3.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5363\" src=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Orangutan3-3.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Terry Sunderland CIFOR \" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Orangutan3-3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Orangutan3-3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo courtesy of Terry Sunderland CIFOR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By <a class=\"url fn\" title=\"Posts by Laura Deal\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.cifor.org\/author-en\/laura-deal\/\" rel=\"author\">Laura Deal<\/a>\u00a0for Forests News Cifor<\/p>\n<p>Bogor, Indonesia &#8211; In at least one way, it\u2019s a place right\u00a0out of a storybook.<\/p>\n<p>A patch of Indonesian forest is the last ecosystem on Earth where nearly every iconic animal from Rudyard Kipling\u2019s \u201cThe Jungle Book\u201d still co-exists.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, there is no storybook ending in sight for the Leuser Ecosystem in steamy, mountainous northern Sumatra.<\/p>\n<p>The current Aceh Spatial Plan\u2014an expansion of the former Ladia Galaska road construction scheme\u2014is slated to slice through highly sensitive areas of the Leuser Ecosystem in Sumatra\u2019s Aceh and Northern Sumatra provinces.<\/p>\n<p><em>This excerpt from a news article appeared in and is courtesy of Forests News and can be read in its entirety <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cifor.org\/27018\/leuser-ecosystem-aceh-spatial-plan-ladia-galaska-road#.VPaAz2eBHWM\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Laura Deal\u00a0for Forests News Cifor Bogor, Indonesia &#8211; In at least one way, it\u2019s a place right\u00a0out of a storybook. A patch of Indonesian forest is the last ecosystem on Earth where nearly every iconic animal from Rudyard Kipling\u2019s \u201cThe Jungle Book\u201d still co-exists. 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