Category — Indonesia

An illegal coffee plantation has been built within the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park in Indonesia, which is causing conflict between humans and elephants. To reduce the number of elephant deaths, a GPS collar has been devised for elephants. By knowing the elephant’s location, humans can be warned when the elephants are entering their area and prepare for them without having to resort to killing them.

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“A man was trampled to death and a home destroyed after sixteen wild elephants rampaged through a village on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, officials said on Wednesday.” – The Straits Times

“Sumatra’s endangered elephants and tigers should get a boost from an Indonesian government move to expand one of their last havens, a four-year-old national park on the island, conservation body WWF said on Thursday.” – Reuters

“A group of wild elephants in the Seblat Elephant Training Center (PLG) broke loose and damaged 1,256 oil palm trees of PT Agricinal in Putri Hijau subdistrict, North Bengkulu regency, and a security post near the plantation.” – ANTARA

“In Riau Province, the flying squad are four adult elephants and eight mahouts patrolling an area along the National Park boundaries, keeping wild elephants away from local communities and teaching villagers non-lethal ways to protect their crops.” – WWF

“A mosquito-borne disease locally known as kaki gajah or elephant foot is ballooning out of control in Riau province in Indonesia recently, according to local media on Monday.” – Xinhua

“Three of wild elephants were reported to have trampled down hundreds of hectares of plantation area belonging to the residents of Kapa Sesak and Naca villages in Trumon sub-district, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD).” – ANTARA

“A study from WWF claims that converting the forests and peat swamps of just one Sumatran province into plantations for pulpwood and palm oil is generating more annual greenhouse gas emissions than the Netherlands, and is endangering local elephant and tiger populations.” – guardian.co.uk

“A herd of wild elephants on Indonesia’s Sumatra has repeatedly outsmarted efforts to stop them stealing crops, wising up to attempts to chase them off with burning torches, a report said Monday.” – INQUIRER.net

“Sumatra is an ideal habitat for the endangered Asian elephant, but it also has ideal growing conditions for coffee beans. Wild Asian elephants and coffee beans had become unlikely competitors in this rapidly shrinking wilderness.” – ABC News

“The World Wildlife Fund inspects damage to a village home in Sumatra. A woman was asleep in the bedroom with her husband and baby son when a wild elephant crashed into their kitchen.” – ABC News

“It’s called the Flying Squad: Four elephants and a baby named Nella. Its mission? To patrol the increasingly contentious boundary between man and wild elephants on the edge of the Tesso Nilo National Park in Sumatra, Indonesia.” – ABC News

“A herd of Sumatran elephants (Elephas Maximus Sumatranus) recently again encroached on a residential area and attacked plantations at Patek, Sampoiniet, Aceh Jaya District, Aceh Province.” – ANTARA

“More than 100 experts and officials met in Indonesia on Wednesday to try to draft an action plan to save Sumatran elephants and tigers threatened with extinction.” – Reuters

“The population of tiger and elephant in West Sumatra`s 21 conserved forests has continued to decrease due to illegal logging activities and human encroachment.” – ANTARA

“Wild elephants killed a woman and her child when they trampled a village on Indonesia’s jungle-clad Sumatra island, a local park ranger said today.” – Herald Sun

“Thousands of Indonesians will be relocated on Sumatra island after wild elephants repeatedly attacked their villages, killing six people.” – NEWS.com.au

“An elephant has trampled its longtime trainer to death at a tourist resort in the Indonesian province of Central Java, local media reported Thursday. The incident occurred Wednesday afternoon at a resort in Tegal district, about 300 kilometres east of Jakarta, reported detik.com online news service.” – Earth Times