Indigenous conservationists lead the fight to save Mentawai’s endangered primates

Mongabay
May 15, 2025, 5:18 pm251 pts
SOUTH SIBERUT, Indonesia — As night falls over the Siberut jungle, a fire crackles inside the Tateburuk clan’s wooden home, or uma. The walls are covered in traditional Mentawai carvings of forest creatures — birds, lizards, monkeys and gibbons — a reminder that the boundary between the outside world…

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