At present, probably only about 2,400 to 2800 Sumatran elephants remaining individuals.
According to the environmental group World Wildlife Fund, the elephant will be extinct from the wild within the next 30 years. Extinction is inevitable, unless there is a significant step taken to protect their habitat is destroyed rapidly.
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), agency of the status of the species living alone has raised the ratings of the Sumatran elephant 'endangered' to 'critically endangered' after a nearly 70 percent and half the population of elephant habitat is destroyed in just a single generation.
The main cause of deforestation is the habitat of elephants and the conversion of forests into agricultural land. Similar practices carried out by humans in Sumatra has led to the extinction of species of the Sumatran tiger and the Javan.
"Sumatran elephants in the list of animal species are critically endangered Indonesia. The list continues to swell also include Sumatran orangutans, the Javan and Sumatran, and Sumatran tigers, "said Carlos Drews, Director of WWF's Global Species Programme, was quoted by Reuters on Wednesday, January 25, 2012.
If there is no effective conservation measures are carried out, according to Drews, these amazing animals is likely to become extinct within a human lifetime.
Currently, only an estimated 2400 to 2800 individuals remaining Sumatran elephants that live in the wild. This number is down 50 percent compared to 1985 estimates. According to researchers, if this trend continues, they will not run out until the next 30 years.
To that end, WWF Indonesia asked the government to ban all forest conversion effort into elephant habitat through conservation strategies to save Sumatran elephants set. (VN)
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