New Video: Saving the Last Elephants of Leuser

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Lying on her side, a critically endangered Sumatran elephant takes her last breath. BKSTA/FKL rangers and veterinarians are doing everything possible to save her.

Every animal is so important right now. The team works tirelessly, feeding her around the clock, administrating saline drips for hydration. The elephant’s leg is badly infected after stepping into a steel snare on a palm oil plantation. Right now within the Leuser Ecosystem, snares are one of the major threats to all wildlife. With only a few hundred elephants left in the Leuser Ecosystem, it’s Indonesia last hope to save this iconic species. 

The Leuser Ecosystem has some of the last intact lowland forests left on the island of Sumatra. Without these forests there is no future for the Sumatran elephant.

Palm oil plantations and deforestation have destroyed over 80% of Sumatra’s forests. There is nowhere else for the elephants.

We have less than ten years to save the Sumatran elephant. Now less than 1,200 survive in the wild. Over the last ten years, Sumatran elephants have been killed reducing the population in half due to illegal logging, illegal hunting, wildlife poaching, snares and conflict with humans.

Global Conservation is supporting Forum Konservation Leuser (FKL) rangers to protect the Benkung Trumon Megafauna Sanctuary, one of Sumatra’s last major intact forest areas with over a million acres. 

With your support we can make change for a better tomorrow.