“A man was trampled to death and a home destroyed after sixteen wild elephants rampaged through a village on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, officials said on Wednesday.” - The Straits Times

“Sumatra’s endangered elephants and tigers should get a boost from an Indonesian government move to expand one of their last havens, a four-year-old national park on the island, conservation body WWF said on Thursday.” - Reuters

“Indonesian villagers are threatening to poison rare wild elephants that are destroying their palmoil plantations in search of food.” - Yahoo! News UK

“It’s called the Flying Squad: Four elephants and a baby named Nella. Its mission? To patrol the increasingly contentious boundary between man and wild elephants on the edge of the Tesso Nilo National Park in Sumatra, Indonesia.” - ABC News

“The population of Sumatran elephants (Elephas maximus sumatranus) in 2007 is estimated to reach between 2,400 and 2,800 heads, or a decrease by 35 percent from the figure in 1992 when there were 5,000 heads, according to an NGO activist.” - ANTARA News

“Thousands of Indonesians will be relocated on Sumatra island after wild elephants repeatedly attacked their villages, killing six people.” - NEWS.com.au

“A herd of wild elephants have killed two people and destroyed several homes during the past week in the south of Indonesia’s Sumatra island, officials said Tuesday.” - Monsters and Critics

“The Sumatran elephant (elephas maximus sumatrensis, sp) in Minas conservation area in Siak district, Riau province, gave birth to a female offspring last week, an official of Sinarmas Forestry conservation division said.” - ANTARA News

“WWF has discovered that ten endangered wild Sumatran elephants are being kept chained to trees without enough food or water in central Riau in Indonesia, having been made homeless by the complete destruction of their forest. The elephants were raiding crops and threatening a nearby village before being captured by local authorities ten days ago.” - WWF

“WWF is urging Indonesian forestry service officials in Sumatra’s Riau Province to stop capturing and translocating elephants.” - WWF -