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The bone of an elephant that died from electric shock in Karang Ampar.

As human-elephant conflicts in Sumatra rise, so does risk from electric fences

Junaidi Hanafiah 29 Jul 2024

Death of Umi sparks concern over electric threat to Sumatran elephants

Teguh Suprayitno 12 Jun 2024
A Sumatran elephant in South Sumatra.

Elephant encounters rattle farmers in Indonesia’s Jambi province

Yitno Suprapto 1 Aug 2023

Report unveils ties between Indonesian conglomerate Sinar Mas and Canada’s Paper Excellence

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Nov 2022

Sumatran conservationist Rahmad Saleh Simbolon dies at 47

Elviza Diana, Lili Rambe 29 Aug 2022
Yasmin trails her son Junaidi on their farm.

Photos: Meet the Indonesians on the front lines of human-elephant conflict in Sumatra

Fieni Aprilia 11 Aug 2022
A herd of elephants in Cot Girek.

‘Chased from every side’: Sumatran elephants pinned down by forest loss

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 10 Aug 2022

Saving Sumatran elephants starts with counting them. Indonesia won’t say how many are left

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 8 Aug 2022

In Sumatra, a snare trap costs a baby elephant her trunk, then her life

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Nov 2021

On plantations and in ‘protected’ areas, Sumatran elephants keep turning up dead

Mongabay Indonesia and Tempo 16 Dec 2020
Sumatran elephants. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

A forest in Sumatra disappears for farms and roads. So do its elephants

Mongabay Indonesia and Tempo 14 Dec 2020

Time is running out for Southeast Asia

Jeremy Hance 9 Dec 2019

Sumatran elephant sanctuary under threat from bridge, port projects

Taufik Wijaya 26 Aug 2019

Two suspected poachers arrested for killing of Sumatran elephant

Mongabay.com 5 Jul 2018

Poachers blamed in second Sumatran elephant death this year

Junaidi Hanafiah 11 Jun 2018

New study suggests Borneo’s had elephants for thousands of years

John Cannon 31 Jan 2018

Poachers blamed as body of Sumatran elephant, missing tusks, found in protected forest

Taufik Wijaya 11 Jan 2018

Leonardo DiCaprio poses with elephants in Indonesia’s embattled Leuser rainforest

Mongabay.com 29 Mar 2016

Aceh official takes chainsaw to illegal oil palm trees

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Dec 2015

Scientists turn to DNA from Sumatran elephant dung to aid conservation

Mike DiGirolamo 13 Oct 2015

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