Electrocution, conflict, poaching mark grim start to year for Sumatran elephants

Electrocution, conflict, poaching mark grim start to year for Sumatran elephants

CENTRAL ACEH, Indonesia — A Sumatran elephant found dead in Indonesia’s Central Aceh district in late February was the latest case of electrocution to kill one of Indonesia’s remaining critically endangered elephants, officials in the semiautonomous region of Aceh province say. In a separate incident a day later, a farmer died after encountering an elephant herd near his family’s corn field. According to a senior conservation official in Aceh, C…