What does Sumatran Safari and the Environment Planning aim to achieve?

—Education & campaign for the local people and to national  

    stakeholders on environmental aspects & energy sources.

—Improve local economic growth by promoting Sumatran Tiger

   Tourism Program.

—Minimized world Carbon emissions and share concern for 

    the environment.

—Decrease global warming.

—Develop networking for further development Indonesia 

    sustainable Tropical forest’s, the world climate control.

Sumatra report

o Sumatra has one of the highest rate of natural forest’ loss in the world, among others due to forest conversion to unsustainable pulp & paper, palm oil, and other agriculture production, and illegal logging.

o Between 1985 and 2008, the island has lost 12.5 million hectares of natural forest, almost fifty percent loss in 23 years. By 2008, Sumatra Island had only 29% forest cover (12.8 million hectares) of its total area.

o It is estimated that Sumatra forests contain the largest store of peat carbon in Southeast Asia with an estimated 19 gigatons of carbon under its peat forests.

Encouraging

—Sumatra is the world’s sixth-largest island,

—the island has diverse natural forest types and is the only place in the world where the Sumatran tiger, elephant, rhino and orangutan exist on one island.

—Experts have recorded a high diversity of species in Sumatra, namely 465 species of birds, 194 species of mammals, and 217 species of reptiles.