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Elephants in Aceh, Sumatra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

S. Poniran
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Elephants still occur in the large Indonesian island of Sumatra, but mostly in small groups of up to seven animals. In the northern province of Aceh the author, after a two-year study, estimates that numbers are now less than a third of what they were 35 years ago. He sees the best hope for their future in scientific management geared to culling the wild populations for working animals, as is done in India.

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Research Article
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Oryx , Volume 12 , Issue 5 , November 1974 , pp. 576 - 580
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1974

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