Investigators are still searching for what caused the recent deaths of a mother and her calf, but conservationists say the animal’s shrinking habitat may be the first place to look ...

A critically endangered Sumatran elephant named Indro died at Tesso Nilo National Park in Riau province on Monday after suffering health complications following the musth period. "Indro died despite ...

A critically endangered Sumatran elephant has been born in Indonesia, officials said Tuesday, another rare birth that has given renewed hope to conservation efforts. Sumatran elephants are on the ...

Amid news of rampant deforestation and illegal wildlife animal trading, Tesso Nilo National Park in Riau, Indonesia, brings ...

Sumatran and Kalimantan elephants are now critically endangered as their habitat areas have been reduced from 42 to 21, Indonesian Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni told a meeting with various ...

A Sumatran elephant calf lies stricken in the jungle in Indonesia as conservationists fight to remove a rope tightly wound around its leg that almost caused the critically endangered animal to lose a ...

Electric fences are common deterrents in Africa and Asia to prevent elephants from accessing human settlements and agricultural land. A civil society organization has blamed the death of an elephant ...

An immediate moratorium on habitat conversion is needed to secure a future for Sumatran elephants, conservation organization WWF says. The Sumatran elephant has been uplisted from “endangered” to ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – Villagers and park rangers are using torches and firecrackers to herd out about 20 endangered Sumatran elephants that wandered into an Indonesian village in search of food.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. On this episode of the Mongabay Newscast, repeat guest Leif Cocks joins to discuss recent reporting from Mongabay on the continued destruction of ...

Workers wait for heavy machines to evacuate the carcass of Molly, a 45-year-old female Sumatran elephant from Bali Zoo that was found dead after being swept away by a flood on Monday, in Gianyar, Bali ...

Nearly a dozen poachers were jailed by an Indonesian court Thursday over the 2020 killing of five critically endangered Sumatran elephants and the illegal trade of their lucrative tusks, as the ...