Starting September 13, CNN International will bring viewers Expedition: Sumatra, a unique eight-part television experience, that follows CNN Special Correspondent and Environmental Adventurer Philippe Cousteau and his team on an unprecedented, behind-the-scenes style trek across the Sumatran rainforest.
In the last two decades, the island of Sumatra in Indonesia has lost half its rainforest to deforestation, pushing endangered species and indigenous people almost out of existence. In this special series, one CNN team bravely sets out to solve the mystery, see the magnitude of what is at stake, and find out why.
The team visits an orangutan sanctuary to witnesses the remarkable training and releasing of pet orangutans back into the wild, mingle with villagers to learn how farmers now repel elephants instead of killing them, encounter an indigenous tribe that lives off the rainforest, and search for evidence of tigers in a forest dangerously close to a logging area.
Along the way, the team witnesses the changing landscape of rainforest, from newly cleared land to established palm oil plantations to pulp processing facilities. They also discover first-hand the challenges of traveling in such a remote place. Together, Cousteau and his team discover why this carbon-absorbing rainforest is so important to the world and why urgent measures must be taken to preserve it. Will they discuss the cloud that the palm oil industry has cast over this endangered island?
Airtimes: IST
Starting September 13, the 8-part TV series airs each-
Friday at 2100 hours
Saturdays at 1830 hours
Sundays at 1500 hours
Mondays at 1300 hours
Tuesdays at 1500 hours
Wednesdays at 1000 hours
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