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Wild Sumatran elephants likely poisoned
Bogor :: Indonesia | 11 days ago
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Kupin Simbolon said on Monday the carcasses of the two elephants were found near each other on May 31, when forest rangers and World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) Riau members conducted a routine patrol to monitor elephant movement. One was a male
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Endangered Elephants Killed in Indonesia
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 15 days ago
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Indonesia An environmental group says 129 endangered elephants have been killed on Indonesia's Sumatra island in less than a decade, highlighting the country's weak enforcement of laws against poaching. WWF Indonesia said Tuesday that no one has been
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Eijkman, WWF agree partnership to conserve Sumatran elephants
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 5 months ago
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The DNA method can hopefully determine the population status and other ecological aspects of the Sumatran elephants, which is considered a critically endangered species. WWF Indonesia's CEO Efransjah said that conserving Sumatran elephants and their
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Warning to Financiers - Don't Fund Forest Destruction
Jambi :: Indonesia | 7 months ago
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Sixty environmental and social non-governmental organisations, including a dozen Indonesian civil society groups, have sent letters to banks and other financial institutions around the world asking for assurances that they will not invest in
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Your letters: The Sumatran tiger crisis
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 9 months ago
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They face conflict with humans as the demand for their skin and other parts rises and their habitat is being cut down at its highest rate. Sumatran tigers require large amounts of forest cover for their territory since they are not social animals. As
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Rare elephant found dead in Indonesia: official
Banda Aceh :: Indonesia | 1 year ago
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Indonesia, May 16, 2012 (AFP) -A critically-endangered Sumatran elephant has been found dead in Indonesia's Aceh province, an official said Wednesday, the second death from suspected poisoning within a month. Villagers found the carcass, missing its
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WWF calls for probe into elephant death
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 1 year ago
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WWF has called on the Indonesian government to investigate the death of a critically endangered Sumatran elephant allegedly poisoned at an oil palm plantation. A ranger at the plantation in Aceh Jaya on Sumatra island said he found the 18-year-old
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Green Blog: Following the Money, and the Mafias, Behind Illegal Logging
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 1 year ago
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European Pressphoto Agency An Indonesian police officer with illegally cut logs seized on a patrol near Tesso Nilo National Park in Riau Province in Indonesia. Endangered forests and plants don't get quite as much public attention as endangered
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Up in smoke: ecological catastrophe in the Sumatran swamps
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 1 year ago
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News in pictures On Facebook Fires raging unchecked in an Indonesian peat swamp forest could wipe out the remaining Sumatran orang-utans which live there, conservationists are warning...The illegal fires, started by palm-oil companies clearing land
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Villa the elephant dies from infection
Jakarta :: Indonesia | over 1 year ago
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The elephant died on Sunday but the news was only released by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Riau on Thursday. Foundation, WWF Riau spokesperson Syamsidar told The Jakarta Post on Thursday. He said that Villa had come from a recreational
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