Electric wire fences set up to keep marauding elephants out of farms and villages in Indonesia’s Aceh province worked well at least at first. When the elephants realized the electric current did not extend to the fence posts, they knocked them down, causing the whole barrier to collapse. Sumatran elephants are “not just clever […]
COT GIREK, Indonesia Nestled between a vast palm oil plantation and the Sumatran rainforest is Alue Buloh, a hamlet in Cot Girek village, North Aceh district. To reach it, one must hike several kilometers down a mud and gravel road lined by land clearings and abandoned huts. The residents of Alue Buloh seem to […]