Who's The Animal? Highly-Endangered Sumatran Elephant Found Decapitated With Tusks Ripped Off
A 40-year-old male elephant was found on an Indonesian plantation on Monday for its tusks poachers cut off its head and trunk Sumatran elephant are an endangered species with less than 2000 of them left in the wild The rotting corpse was discovered by a plantation worker in Riau province on Sumatra island.
Even though trade of elephant tusks is banned, these beasts are killed around the world and their tusks traded illegally.
Corpse of a 40-year-old male elephant was found on an Indonesian plantation on Monday; For its tusks, poachers cut off its head and trunk.
Indonesian Natural Resources Co
Sumatran elephant are an endangered species with less than 2,000 of them left in the wild. The rotting corpse was discovered by a plantation worker in Riau province on Sumatra island.
¡°The elephant's head had been cut off and its severed trunk was found a metre away from the body,¡± Daily Mail quoted the chief of the local conservation agency Suharyono, as saying.
According to the authorities, the elephant had been dead for almost a week before it was discovered.
Indonesian Resources Natural Co
Suharyono said, ¡°We suspect the elephant was hunted and killed and then its head was cut off to remove the tusks.¡±
Rampant deforestation is the primary reason for the dwindling numbers of this species. It also brings them in regular conflict with humans.
A few months ago, Botswana legalized hunting elephants because of their overpopulation in the country. Its result was that a gut wrenching picture of a dead elephant went viral. It was killed for its tusks.
A drone captured the horrifying image of the barbaric death of a full-grown elephant. The severed trunk lay next to its body, its face mutilated and tusks gone. Poachers allegedly used chainsaws to cut off the majestic beast¡¯s trunk and tusk, and abandoned its carcass somewhere on the plains.
Justin Sullivan
Reportedly there has been an exponential increase in poaching in Botswana with an estimated 593% rise in the number of elephant bodies found between 2014 to 2018.
The drone image was clicked by a documentary filmmaker Justin Sullivan, who titled the image 'Disconnection'.
It is shameful that poachers would attack an endangered species for the trade of items that are illegal and brutally murder the being. Strict action should be taken against the poachers responsible for the death of the Sumatran elephant in Indonesia.
