“Two residents were injured after they were trampled by two wild elephants that went on a rampage in Indonesia’s eastern Sumatra province of Riau, a local media report said Tuesday.” – Monsters and Critics

“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

“WWF today applauded the leaders of the three nations on the island of Borneo ? Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia and Malaysia ? for officially endorsing an historic agreement to conserve the “Heart of Borneo,” a mountainous region of rainforests about the size of Kansas that is home to pygmy elephants, rhinos and orangutans.” – American Digital Networks

“The Indonesian island of Sumatra is home to some unique wildlife, whose natural habitat is shrinking under the increasing threat from illegal logging and oil palm plantations.” – BBC News

“Wild rampaging elephants trampled a farmer to death and destroyed several houses in a village on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, witnesses said Tuesday.” – International Herald Tribune

“Brush fires that have sent a gray haze over neighboring Malaysia and Singapore scattered rare elephants in an Indonesian forest Tuesday, as the government prepared to have soldiers fight the blazes, officials said.” – International Herald Tribune

“Four wild elephants have been found dead in the jungles of Indonesia’s Sumatra island, and a conservationist said Friday he suspected they were deliberately poisoned.” – International Herald Tribune

“The residents of Pekanbaru, capital of Riau, a province in Indonesia on the island of Sumatra, were in an uproar after two wild male elephants entered the city last Thursday night.” – OhmyNews International

“WWF has discovered that ten endangered wild Sumatran elephants are being kept chained to trees without enough food or water in central Riau in Indonesia, having been made homeless by the complete destruction of their forest. The elephants were raiding crops and threatening a nearby village before being captured by local authorities ten days ago.” – WWF

“WWF is urging Indonesian forestry service officials in Sumatra’s Riau Province to stop capturing and translocating elephants.” – WWF -

“They’ve tried everything from sticks and stones to bullets to keep elephants away from their crops.” – Planet Ark

“A herd of some 20 wild elephants from a national park in Indonesia’s province of Lampung ventured again into nearby settlements in the past week, ravaging plantations and residents’ houses, the Jakarta Post reported Friday.” – Xinhua

“Wild elephants trampled three farmers to death in a national park on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, as the villagers scavenged for lumber left behind by illegal loggers, a government official said on Friday.” – IOL

“Since the Asian elephants began helping clear debris in Indonesia?s Aceh province after the Dec. 26 tsunami, they have picked up minor on-the-job injuries. Officials and trainers say none of the wounds are serious, but conservationists and animal welfare activists say the endangered elephants shouldn’t be working in the ruined city of Banda Aceh and want the practice ended.” – MSNBC

“Indonesia has asked Singaporean vets to airlift anti-tetanus vaccines for elephants helping in the massive post-tsunami clean-up.” – BBC NEWS

“About two miles inland from where Hasbi stands next to the beach, a group of young Indonesian soldiers stand ankle deep in mud, watching as two elephants wade through six feet of water surrounding a collapsed home. Because only so many bulldozers are available – perhaps 50 are deployed in Banda Aceh – the elephants are a welcome aid.” – csmonitor.com

“The parks are home to numerous sensitive animals, including elephants, tigers and orang-utans, and have the highest plant diversity levels in the world. ” – Green Consumer Guide