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

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

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 and the home is thin. Damianus […]