On plantations and in ‘protected’ areas, Sumatran elephants keep turning up dead

Mongabay
Dec 16, 2020, 11:32 am203 pts
The pungent stench of an elephant carcass filled the acacia plantation. Estimates placed its death at six days before it was found on Nov. 18, 2019. Maggots filled the base of its severed trunk. Both tusks were missing, with only 10 centimeters (4 inches) of tusk visible from the animal’s skull before ending…

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