A brief but powerful video shot and produced by noted conservation photojournalist Paul Jan Hilton. The plight of endangered Sumatran elephants in Indonesia is examined. Global Conservation supports the work of FKL, along with the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and HAkA in the Leuser Ecosystem.
The Leuser Ecosystem is the last place on earth where elephants, tigers, orangutans and rhinos exist together in the wild. Global Conservation is working to preserve endangered animals by supporting park rangers and wildlife authorities with Global Park Defense. Global Park Defense (GPD) combines state-of-the-art SMART patrol methods with surveillance technologies and community involvement. This is a proven system now at work all over the world.
Lying on her side, a critically endangered Sumatran elephant takes her last breath.
BKSDA, FCA ranges 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 Lowe's
ecosystem, snares are one of the major threats to all wildlife. With only a few hundred elephants
left in the Lowe's ecosystem, it's Indonesia's last hope to save this iconic species.
The Lowe's 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 10 years to save the Sumatran elephant.
Now less than 1,200 survive in the wild. Over the last 10 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 FKL Ranges to protect
the Bengkong-Tumen 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.
