Many of the world’s biggest brands sourcing commodities from the island and the various commodities’ major industry associations have adopted and need to implement NDPE (No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation) sustainability policies. To maintain Sumatra’s biodiversity and its peatlands’ vast carbon stocks, and to protect the full range of environmental and livelihood services that depend on it, further deforestation must be stopped, and restoration should start. The resulting habitat loss, poaching, human-wildlife conflict and fires have pushed many already critically endangered species such as the Sumatran rhinoceros, tiger, elephant, and orangutan, and the Malayan tapir, to the edge of extinction.

Rapid deforestation for oil palm, paper and other commodities has often been facilitated by a lack of checks on the origins of products and their associated deforestation and other environmental and social risks. Sumatra island hosts some of the most diverse forests on Earth and some of the most threatened.

Sumatera maps