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Podcast: Mongabay Newscast
Episode: Mongabay Explores Sumatra, Episode 1: A landscape like no other
Description: "Sumatra is like a fossil relic of rare species...a giant, rhino horn-shaped island blanketed in the richest rainforest you can imagine...there's nothing like it," one of our guests declares. The 6th largest island in the world and the 2nd largest economy in Indonesia, Sumatra is the only place in the world where you can you find tigers, elephants, rhinos and orangutans all living together in an incredibly rich landscape of rainforests that, until recently, were largely untouched by human activities. But that's changing rapidly, and this new biweekly series from Mongabay Explores dives i...