Human Elephant Coexistence

The biggest issues Sumatran elephant are overlap with community activities. In many places in Sumatra, 80-90% of Sumatran elephant habitat has been co-opted by the natural resource companies and the community, so human-elephant conflict is inevitable and into access groups for the purpose of ivory poaching. Balai Raja - Riau Province is an elephant habitat area since past. Massive forest clearing occurred and resulted in almost the entire forest as the elephant habitat lost by oil fields, gardens and settlements (forest remaining about 150 ha only).