Poachers blamed as body of Sumatran elephant, missing tusks, found in protected forest

Mongabay
Jan 11, 2018, 5:59 am480 ptsHot
PALEMBANG, Indonesia — Wildlife activists in Indonesia suspect poachers poisoned an elephant found with its tusks hacked off in a protected forest in southern Sumatra. The body of the male Sumatran elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus), believed to be about 10 years old, was found Sunday by local farmers in a…

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