A vet treats a seven year old Sumatran elephant found injured by a hunter's trap, at Saree elephant training center in Indonesia's Aceh province in this file picture from Feb 25, 2020. - AFP
ACEH JAYA, Indonesia (AFP): Nearly a dozen poachers were jailed by an Indonesian court Thursday (Jan 27) over the 2020 killing of five critically endangered Sumatran elephants and the illegal trade of their lucrative tusks, as the South-East Asian archipelago's battle with wildlife crime continues.
Rampant deforestation has reduced the elephants' habitat and brought them into increasing conflict with humans, while their ivory tusks are prized in the illegal wildlife trade.
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