June 2025
Java’s legendary endemic wildlife faces an extinction crisis as rampant deforestation destroys critical habitats. Once-abundant species of monkeys, gibbons, and lorises now teeter on the brink of extinction, while isolated […]
February 2025
Java is one of the most densely populated islands in the world. Once, it was also densely forested, but its legendary expanses of rainforest are almost all gone now, cut […]
February 2024
The island of Java was once largely covered with forest, where species of leopards, gibbons, monkeys, birds, and many other animals unique to the island roamed. But Java has long […]
February 2019
The lush West Java forest is home to a rich array of plants of animals. There are more than 300 species of birds, including the vulnerable rhinoceros hornbill. Several monkey […]
February 2018
West Java’s beautiful rainforests support many endemic species. Some of them, including the Javan gibbon, Javan surili, Javan hawk-eagle, Javan leopard, and others, are endangered or critically endangered. Much of their […]
June 2016
The rainforests of West Java are home to many endemic and endangered species: the Javan gibbon, Javan surili, Javan hawk-eagle, and Javan leopard, just to name a few. But the […]
January 2009
Mandalamekar Village, in the highlands of West Java, Indonesia, is home to 3,200 people who are mainly engaged in farming. The village recently created its own protected forest area of […]