Tesso Nilo National Park in Sumatra

Land clearing in the heart of Tesso Nilo National Park, Indonesia. The park suffers heavy encroachment from illegal loggers and illegal settlers who clear the park for crops and palm oil plantations, as well as village sites. Already, 28,600 hectares, or about a third of the park, has been deforested.

Unique identifier: GP04V1U

Type: Image

Shoot date: 28/09/2013

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

Credit line: © Ardiles Rante / Greenpeace

Latitude: 0°13'13"S

Longitude: 102°0'56"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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