SUMATRA, INDONESIA - DEC 1-10 2025
Ten days in earth’s oldest extant rainforest, the Gunung Leuser ecosystem. This experience boasts a variety of high-profile targets (King cobras, dragon snakes, coral snakes, & kraits). The tour is operated in tandem with a local wildlife rehabilitation NGO and anti-poaching team; it is our most impactful project towards conservation! Afterwards, consider joining our herp & dive add-on to Komodo and Rinca.
Join us as we delve into some of Earth's oldest forests in the Gunung Lesuer ecosystem of Northern Sumatra. This jungle is credited with being the last extant habitat home to a plethora of critically endangered life, surviving alongside one another not unlike Earth before humans entered the global stage. Here, one is in the presence of bears, tigers, rhinoceros, Sumatran elephants and great apes all in one place. Such pristine evergreen dipterocarp forest is shrinking every day thanks to illicit logging, unchecked palm oil cultivation and wildlife poachers. It is estimated that as much as 50% of this rainforest has been cleared in just the last 25 years. Such rampant destruction continues today at an incomprehensible rate.
Working with our local partners at Sumatra Eco Project, this adventure will take us into the environments surrounding Bukit Lawang, neighboring Tengulun, and lastly; the coastal mangrove habitat of Karang Gading. We will target herps such as the king cobra, mangrove pit viper, red-headed krait, striped & blue coral snakes, reticulated pythons, wagler’s pit viper, and the Sumatran spitting cobra. Additional mammalian targets include the Sumatran elephant, Sumatran orangutan, sun bears, siamang gibbons, Thomas leaf nose monkeys, silver leaf langurs, Sunda pangolin, binturong, colugos, and slow loris. After the thrill of Sumatra, we’re adding an optional secondary adventure to Komodo National Park from Dec. 10-14. Keep scrolling for more info.
This journey plays out over the course of 10 days, as we work our way through several habitats with respective targets. Proceeds of this trip directly benefit the Sumatra Eco Project and its animal rehabilitation center. The center has successfully re-wilded nearly 500 displaced animals ranging from orangutans to serpent eagles and basically everything in-between. Our expeditions have funded the construction of a completely new and improved rescue & research center outside of Bukit Lawang. Construction is slated to begin mid-2025.
