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Rosa is pictured at a CRU, Conservation Respone Unit in Aceh, Sumatra,13th July 2013.In 2012, the Sumatran elephant was changed from “Endangered” to “Critically Endangered” because half of its population has been lost in one generation. It's estimated population of 2000 individuals makes in the most endangered elephant on the planet. —a decline that is largely due to habitat loss and as a result human-elephant conflict. Sumatra has experienced one of the highest rates of deforestation within the Asian elephant’s range, which has resulted in local extinctions of elephants in many areas. Over two-thirds of its natural lowland forest has been razed in the past 25 years and nearly 70 percent of the Sumatran elephant’s habitat has been destroyed in one generation. Photo: Paul Hilton. Photo: Paul Hilton Photo: Paul Hilton
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- Paul HILTON
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- Sumatran Elephants, Sumatran Elephant

