SUMATRA: A pregnant elephant has been found dead in a palm oil plantation on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, in what authorities suspect was a deliberate poisoning, an official said on Wednesday. “The 25-year-old elephant had been dead for around 10 days when we got there,” he said. Locals have told authorities that several days before the carcass was discovered farmers had complained an elephant ate their fertiliser. At least 11 wild elephants died in Aceh this year, most of them killed by humans, according to Prabowo. In January, authorities found a dead elephant without tusks in Aceh, along with its abandoned 11-month-old calf.

Source: Pakistan Today December 27, 2017 10:41 UTC