{"id":6374,"date":"2017-01-07T12:15:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T20:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/?p=6374"},"modified":"2017-01-07T12:15:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T20:15:52","slug":"conservation-perspective-ecosystem-services-are-key-to-saving-leuser-say-local-ngos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/conservation-perspective-ecosystem-services-are-key-to-saving-leuser-say-local-ngos\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation Perspective: Ecosystem Services Are Key To Saving Leuser Say Local NGOs"},"content":{"rendered":"
The truth is that the future of local Sumatrans, the Leuser ecosystem and orangutans, along with industrial agriculture, global commodities investors, and the world\u2019s hunger for palm oil are all intricately bound together.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Photo by and courtesy of Rhett A. Butler at Mongabay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

by Colleen Kimmett\u00a0for Mongabay<\/strong><\/p>\n

Five years ago, there were likely very few people outside of Indonesia who\u2019d ever heard of a place called the Leuser ecosystem. Today, this enormous and besieged tropical rainforest on the Indonesian island of Sumatra is on its way to becoming as well known as the Amazon in terms of its unique wildlife and its worldwide conservation significance.<\/p>\n

Leuser has received visits from countless international media crews, been the focus of major global NGO campaigns, and, most recently, was the backdrop of Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s Instagram and Twitter photos.<\/p>\n

Orangutans have, arguably, continued to generate much of this attention. Leuser is one of the last refuges of these Critically Endangered primates, found only on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, and the \u201clast place on earth<\/span><\/a>\u201d \u2014 as Leuser has been billed in media campaigns \u2014 where they exist alongside tigers, elephants and rhinos.<\/p>\n

But while these charismatic megafauna have aroused massive global attention, the preservation of their habitat, and their fate, likely rests not just with international NGOs, but is also in the hands of the people who live there. And the locals have a very different perspective and very different priorities.<\/p>\n

A growing grassroots environmental movement in Sumatra has made real gains in protecting the Leuser ecosystem. But they\u2019ve achieved their successes not by appealing to their citizens\u2019 love of great apes, but by attending first to the bigger concerns of local people: addressing their desires for clean air, fresh water and a variety of other invaluable ecosystem services provided by undisturbed tropical rainforests.<\/p>\n

This excerpt from an article appeared in and is courtesy of Mongabay.com and can be read in its entirety here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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