• Sweden Rejected by her herd, an elephant calf dies in a zoo

An

elephant calf

has died on the Indonesian island of

Sumatra

after losing half its trunk after

falling into a trap set by poachers

, despite the efforts of its keepers to save its life, local authorities said Thursday.

"We received information that some neighbors in the area had seen an elephant calf separated from their group (...) His trunk was injured,"

Agus Arianto

, head of the Aceh Natural Resources Conservation Agency

, told

EFE

.

The little one-year-old pachyderm fell

behind his herd last Saturday when he fell into the trap

in Aceh, a region located in the north of the island of Sumatra, west of the Indonesian archipelago.

The female was

one of the last 700 wild elephants left on the island of Sumatra

and was already very weak when she was found the next day in Alue Meuraska, a village in a jungle area in the Aceh Jaya district.

Veterinarians

had to amputate part of her trunk

and the calf died two days later due to an internal infection.

"He also had eating problems because he couldn't digest food well

," Arianto explained by phone.

Poachers kill elephants primarily to seize the ivory tusks they sell for lucrative prices on the illegal market.

In

2018

, another elephant calf around 7 months old also died in Sumatra after falling into a wild pig trap and being abandoned by its herd.

Close-up image of the deceased elephant calf.HOTLI SIMANJUNTAKEFE

Pachyderms are intelligent and sensitive animals that create close and lasting bonds between members of the herd.

The

Sumatran elephant is a subspecies of the Asian elephant that is seriously threatened

due to the decline of its habitat due to agricultural development and human settlements, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

The Indonesian archipelago is one of the most biodiverse places on the planet and has hundreds of threatened species.

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