Sumatran Ranger Project
Mission statement
A community conservation initiative to help protect the threatened and globally significant Leuser Ecosystem in North Sumatra. Sumatran Ranger Project supports forest edge communities to reduce harmful activity and implement alternative livelihoods, mitigate human-wildlife conflict, carry out anti-poaching ranger patrols and manages a number of camera traps in the buffer zone outside the Gunung Leuser National Park, collecting data on the biodiversity utilising areas close to human settlement.
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ASAP Species they are working to conserve
ASAP Partner since: 2019
Country focus: Indonesia
Earlier this year, a significant breakthrough was made in one of the projects funded by ASAP’s Species Conservation Fund. After a long search, the dedicated team rediscovered the very first specimen of an Mesilau Stream Toad, thought to have been lost to science.