Tesso Nilo National Park in Sumatra

Acacia plantation owned by PT Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper - one of the biggest paper pulp mill in the world- overlapping with Tesso Nilo National Park, Indonesia. The park is threatened due to palm oil and acacia plantation expansion.

Unique identifier: GP04V1Z

Type: Image

Shoot date: 28/09/2013

Locations: Indonesia, Riau, Southeast Asia, Sumatra, Tesso Nilo National Park

Credit line: © Ardiles Rante / Greenpeace

Latitude: 0°11'20"S

Longitude: 101°58'41"E

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Tesso Nilo National Park in Sumatra

Tesso Nilo National Park in Sumatra, Indonesia, has one of the world’s highest recorded diversities of plants and supports key populations of critically endangered Sumatran elephants and tigers. It was designated a national park in 2004, but most of the natural forest in and around Tesso Nilo has now been cleared and replaced with plantations to feed the pulp and palm oil sectors. By 2013, just a quarter of the area of the Tesso Nilo forest complex remained forested.

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