An immediate moratorium on habitat conversion is needed to secure a future for Sumatran elephants, conservation organization WWF says. The Sumatran elephant has been uplisted from “endangered” to ...

Electric fences are common deterrents in Africa and Asia to prevent elephants from accessing human settlements and agricultural land. A civil society organization has blamed the death of an elephant ...

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GIANYAR, Indonesia — An elephant that lived at the zoo on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali was found dead on Tuesday after being swept away by a strong river current. Molly, a 45-year-old female ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – Villagers and park rangers are using torches and firecrackers to herd out about 20 endangered Sumatran elephants that wandered into an Indonesian village in search of food.

The four elephants deployed to lift debris in Aceh last week after flooding were also involved in the 2004 post-tsunami recovery efforts When the Indonesian island of Sumatra was struggling to recover ...

Indonesian authorities found five elephant carcasses after they were killed by electrical voltage - Copyright AFP/File CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN Indonesian authorities found ...

A critically endangered Sumatran elephant was born in western Indonesia, according to officials, giving renewed hope to conservation efforts for the subspecies. According to the World Wildlife Fund, ...

Jan 24 (Reuters) - The Sumatran elephant could be extinct in the wild in under 30 years unless immediate steps are taken to protect its rapidly diminishing habitat, environmental group WWF said on ...

GENEVA, Aug 28 (Reuters) - 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 ...

I was recipient of the Prince Bernhard Scholarship in 2009 when I was studying a Masters degree in Environmental Sciences at University of Indonesia. Before, I was working at WWF-Indonesia for Bukit ...

Workers wait for heavy machines to evacuate the carcass of Molly, a 45-year-old female Sumatran elephant from Bali Zoo that was found dead after being swept away by a flood on Monday, in Gianyar, Bali ...