WWF has pushed for the protection of Tesso Nilo Forest as a national park since 2004 so that Riau’s elephants would have a safe haven. But the park is still being illegally cleared for commercial activity and may be at its carrying capacity for elephants. The current 38,000ha park is too small to provide sufficient habitat for any additional elephants. The park was originally proposed to be 100,000ha.
Eight endangered Sumatran elephants were released into Indonesia's Tesso
Nilo forest, months after they were found chained to trees without food
or water. WWF, which provided daily care and medical treatment for the
elephants after their discovery, worked with local government officials
to ensure their safe release. The elephant herd initially numbered ten when they were captured by Riau
Forestry Officials after raiding crops in Balai Raja of northern Riau
on the Indonesia island of Sumatra — one died of tetanus and one
escaped.
This article is so deep. These elephants need room to live, which means ending problematic pulp and oil palm development. Unsustainable logging throughout the province has eliminated much of the
elephants, include their original habitat and as a result have been moving into more
populated areas in search of food. Even these elephants are the latest casualties in the escalating human-elephant conflict in central Sumatra, the direct result of uncontrolled destruction of their forest habitat, i wish government can stop all forest conversion, illegal logging and encroachment
Reflection based on
http://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?70060/Elephants-released-in-Indonesias-Tesso-Nilo-National-Park
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