Monitoring Sumatran Elephants in Riau: Protecting Wildlife, Forests, and Communities Deep within the lowland forests of Riau Province, among towering meranti trees and winding rivers, lives one of Sumatra’s most iconic and magnificent mammals: the Sumatran Elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus). Yet the future of these elephants is increasingly uncertain. Habitat loss and fragmentation, declining food resources, illegal hunting, and the […]