Indonesia: Best of Photos

Photo highlights from Indonesia - 2009

Below you will find a collection of photos from Indonesia. Pictures were taken by Rhett A. Butler in 2009 and 2006. While these images are the property of mongabay.com, it may be permissible to use them for non-commercial purposes (like powerpoint presentations and school projects), provided that the images are not altered in any form. Please read this for more details. If you are interested in using an image in a publication please contact me.

Environmental news for Indonesia

Orangutan with Large Face Plate

Blue-eyed butterfly

Oil palm plantation with the rainforest of Gunung Leuser National Park in the background

Green katydid

Brown toad

Sumatran freshwater turtle

Wild red ginger flowers

Orange leafhopper

Giant Dipterocarp tree

Orangutan with a coconut hat and leaf in mouth

Bamboo shoot

Large Orangutan Looking into Camera

Large Orangutan in Central Kalimantan

Stream Glory (Neurobasis chinensis) a metallic green damselfly

Replanting an oil palm plantation on the edge of Gunung Leuser National Park

Orangutan discovers the value of using tools

Orphaned Orangutan in Central Kalimantan

Common bluebottle butterflies (Graphium sarpedon) feeding on minerals

Young Orangutans learning to using tools

Bohorok River

Abandoned homestead in deforestated area

Forest along the Bohorok River

Pink ginger flowers

Sulawesi home outside of Makassar

Yellow and black grasshopper

Riverside huts along river draining Lake Tempe

Gunung Leuser Rain Forest

Red grasshawk dragonfly

Pink blossoms

Pink and red ginger flower

Close up on grains of rice in a rice field

Emerald green rice terraces of south Sulawesi

Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) Breeding plumage in Petulu

Aerial view of rainforest that has been slash-and-burned for agriculture

Palawa village

Pitcher plant, Nepenthes reinwardtiana, in rain forest of Borneo

Rice field in Bali

Little girls at Lemo

Tau-Tau Effigies at Londa Nanggala

Rice fields near Batutomonga village

Nepenthes rafflesiana, a large pitcher plant commonly found in swampy forests of Borneo

Yellow and brown toad in Sulawesi

Blue green and copper colored grasshopper with large red eyes and yellow antennae

Top breed white water buffalo

Giant bamboo (Dendrocalamus giganteus)

Charred forest remains from slash-and-burn agriculture

Silk threads

Slash-and-burn agriculture in the Borneo jungle

Wooden effigies of the dead at Lemo

Orangutan eating a stick

Fuel wood cut from the rainforest of Java

Green katydid

Iridescent blue butterfly

Patch of jungle that has been slash-and-burned in Borneo

Brachydiplax dragonfly on blade of grass

Orange orchid with magenta spots

Adult male Proboscis monkey

Stupas at sunrise

Pink lotus flower

Tree frog in the tropical forest of Borneo

Mama Orangutan with baby in her lap

Green hued lizard

Black, violet, and green damselfly

Airplane view of peatland being drained and cleared in Borneo

Fungi on a rainforest tree

Mama Orangutan Carrying Baby

Rainforest creek in Gunung Leuser

Rain forest along the Bohorok River

New oil palm development in forest bordering Gunung Leuser National Park

Orangutan discovers the value of using tools

Riverside village downriver from Bantimurung falls

Swamp forest along the Seikonyer River

Isolated mountain home in forests of Sulawesi

Black and brown cricket

Black and green-white cricket

Grasshopper

Wooden effigies of the dead in cliff walls at Lemo

Domiant male Proboscis Monkey with females in tree eating fruit

Young Orangutans hanging out

Jungle Lodge restaurant at Tangkahan

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