수마트라 코끼리

수마트라코끼리는 장비목 코끼리과에 속하는 아시아코끼리의 아종이다. 수마트라 섬과 인도네시아에 두루 서식하며, 아시아코끼리의 아종 중에서는 상대적으로 작은 편이다. 전 세계에 2,000마리가 잔존하고 있다.

Sumatran Elephant

The Sumatran elephant is one of three recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant, and native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra. In 2011, IUCN upgraded the conservation status of the Sumatran elephant from endangered to critically endangered in its Red List as the population had declined by at least 80% during the past three generations, estimated to be about 75 years. The subspecies is preeminently threatened by habitat loss, degradation and fragmentation, and poaching; over 69% of potential elephant habitat has been lost within the last 25 years. Much of the remaining forest cover is in blocks smaller than 250 k㎡, which are too small to contain viable elephant populations.