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In the morning of Valentine's Day in 2022, an elephant, called Codet, crossed the Pekanbaru-Dumai toll road at the 73rd-kilometre point of the . ....
Deputy Finance Minister Suahasil Nazara expressed confidence that the recently completed Pekanbaru-Dumai toll road section within the national strategic . ....
On plantations and in ‘protected’ areas, Sumatran elephants keep turning up dead In Sumatra’s Riau province, 93% of known elephant habitat is in forests where commercial and industrial activity is permitted. In the past five years, at least seven elephants have been found dead in pulp and paper concessions controlled by affiliates of industry giants Asia Pulp & Paper and the APRIL group. Many of these elephants are believed to have been killed by poachers, who activists say can easily enter and leave concession sites. Activists call on concession holders to do more to protect the animals who range on land under company management. ....
A forest in Sumatra disappears for farms and roads. So do its elephants The 15,300-hectare (37,900-acre) Balai Raja Wildlife Reserve in Sumatra’s Riau province was established in 1986 and designated an elephant reserve in 1992. By 2010, less than 200 hectares of intact forest remained in the reserve. The elephant herd, which as of 2014 numbered 25, had no more than seven survivors as of late 2019. Much of the forest was lost to oil palm plantations and smallholder agriculture, but official government buildings have also been built within the reserve. Now, the remaining elephant habitat is threatened by a road construction project that is also mired in corruption. ....