Pregnant Sumatran elephant found dead of suspected poisoning near a palm plantation in Indonesia’s Riau province on the island of Sumatra, officials say.
In this Wednesday, May 25, 2022 photo released by Indonesia's Nature Conservation Agency , the carcass of a pregnant Sumatran elephant, suspectedly died of poisoning, lies on the ground near a palm plantation in Bengkalis, Riau province, Indonesia. Local authorities are still investigating the cause of the death of the critically endangered elephant and its unborn baby.
Local authorities are investigating the cause of death of the elephant, which was discovered in a joint patrol by local conservation groups on Wednesday. But they strongly suspect it was poisoned. The animal had blood coming out of its mouth and anus, according to Fifin Arfiana Jogasara, the acting head of Riau Natural Resources Conservation, another group on the patrol that found the animal.
The population of Sumatran elephants on the island shrank from 1,300 in 2014 to 693 last year, down nearly 50% in seven years, Indonesian forestry and environment ministry data show. The decline has occurred amid a loss of more than 69% of the animal's potential habitat in the last 25 years — the equivalent of one generation.
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