Three rare elephants were killed in Indonesia

People discovered the bodies of three Sumatra elephants in a palm plantation in western Indonesia on May 31.

Fakta, an Indonesian environmental protection organization, said the corpses of three elephants - aged between 4 and 5 years - were in a government-owned palm plantation in the east of Aceh province. Experts discovered some soap cakes near the corpses of elephants so they suspected they were poisoned, AFP reported.

'We think elephants die after eating poisonous soap bars. It seems that they have been dead for about a week , 'said Rabono Wiranata, head of Fakta.

Sumatra elephants in Indonesia.

Officials say that people or poachers have killed elephants. Villagers hate elephants because they often destroy their plantations, and poachers want to kill elephants for ivory.

In May, the bodies of two Sumatra elephants were found in western Aceh province.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature estimates that the number of Sumatran elephants in the wild is around 3,000. Their numbers have dropped by 50% since 1985. The International Nature Protection Fund put Sumatra elephants on the list of endangered animals at a high level in January. people in the past few years have made Sumatra elephant habitat narrow.