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The Sumatran elephant is an 'umbrella species' for its habitat and represents biodiversity within its complex ecosystem.

The Sumatran elephant has a height of about 1.7 to 2.6 meters. When compared with the African Elephant, the size of the Sumatran elephant is smaller. Currently, population conditions decline with the high level of forest loss in Sumatra. The Sumatran Elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus) is currently in the status of the Endangered Thought in the red list of endangered species released by the World Conservation Institute -IUCN). In Indonesia, Sumatran elephants are also included in protected animals according to Law no. 5 of 1990 on the Conservation of Biological Resources and Ecosystems and regulated in government regulations, namely PP 7/1999 on Plant and Animal Maintenance.

The entry of Sumatran elephants in the list is caused by illegal logging activities, habitat depreciation and fragmentation, as well as killings due to conflict and hunting. The hunts are usually only tusked, while the rest of the body is left to rot on the site.

The development of the pulp and paper industry as well as the palm oil industry as one of the triggers for the loss of elephant habitat in Sumatra, has prompted an increasingly intensive human-wildlife conflict. Young coconut trees are the elephant's favorite food and the damage caused by these elephants can lead to killing (usually due to poisoning) and arrest. Hundreds of elephants have died or disappeared throughout Riau Province since 2000 due to the capture of many large animals that are often regarded as 'pests'.

Threat

But it is now estimated to have fallen considerably from that figure as its habitat continues to shrink and the ongoing killings. The WWF-Indonesia study shows that the Sumatran elephant population is increasingly worrisome, in 25 years, the Sumatran elephant has lost about 70% of its habitat, and its population has shrunk by more than half. The 2007 population estimate is between 2400-2800 individuals, but is now estimated to have fallen considerably from that figure as habitat continues to shrink and ongoing killings.

Especially for the Riau region in the last quarter century, the estimated population of Elephant Sumatra, which has long been the bulwark of the elephant population, decreased by 84% to approximately 210 only in 2007. More than 100 individuals elephants who have died since 2004. Threat the main for the Sumatran elephant is the loss of their habitat due to the unsustainable deforestation activities of poaching and illegal trade as well as the conversion of natural forest to large scale plantations (palm and paper).

source from wwf indonesia

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