The Endangered Animal

Elephants Attack

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Preparing to attack

 In my whole life, this is the firs time I've seen the group elephants for

 for real. This pictures were taken during the day we were patrolling

to drive away the elephants if they inter the Plantation area.

 This was my first day to be involved in guarding the boundary. of

Matamba Estate palm oil plantation in Lahad Datu. Since for whole of my

I haven't seen even a single elephant   in actual satuation.

 

 I've only see elephants on screen usually "The

National Geography tv program on RTM1. The

program that goes on the  air everyday at 7:00pm.   

 This time its not in any tv show or movie but I saw it

live in real world in front me and the other 4 of my

co-workers.

At first I was shock and afraid of the elephants to

harm us. After watch theme for an our I had

recovered from being nervous.

If they are getting fierce, then may be ther'll be

  possible problem about them. Like for example got

sick, or they might be wounded due to the illegal

shot them accidentally.

 I should that its the human who is fierce no the

animal, because people always, if not all but most us

are made the destruction to their habitat. 

 One example is the logging activity.It will destroy the

forest where most wild animals are living. Another

one is plantation. A huge plantation company barren

the area of virgin forest for there own importance

disregarding the wildlife salvation.

 Generally, human not only destroying the wildlife

habitat, but the wild animals it self are also affected.

There are an activist who conserve the frora and

fauna, in my own  opinion these organization are

already to late rehabilitate the situation. Because they

took action when most animals were already

 extinct, some were totally wipe out.  

Not even a  single species had exist to this day.

(Steller's Sea Cow

Steller's Sea Cow was discovered in the Aleutian Islands by George Steller while exploring with Vitus Bering in 1741. They grew as large as 35 feet long and weighed up to three-and-a-half tons.    Sailors ate their meat and used their leather.  They were easily killed and vanished from their only home within 30 years after Steller's discovery.}

 This  excerpt is the evidence why people has said to be fierce than animals. people could vanish  the animals, in reverse animals can't.

  We should have think the consequence  before

any activities on on the forest becoming worst.

 Development could be stopped, we to face the truth

that the population of the world is growing, either we

like it or not this  is the reality of life. The  Over 

populated country  has to balance the economy with

 its population meet the needs of the people.

Indonesia and Malaysia have, concomitant with the destruction of enormous tracts of tropical rainforest, some of the world's longest lists of threatened wildlife. Of the more than 400 land mammal species of Indonesia, 15 are critically endangered and another 125 threatened. Of Malaysia's nearly 300 land mammal species, 6 are critically endangered and 41 threatened. The numbers of threatened species climb higher when terrestrial reptiles, amphibians, and birds are included. Moreover, certain animals, such as the orangutan, are only found in these countries; when their rainforest habitat vanishes, so will they.

Five mammals exemplify the impending disaster: the Sumatran tiger, Sumatran and Bornean orangutans, Asian elephant, and Sumatran rhinoceros. Each of those species is endangered, with the three eponymous Sumatran species critically endangered. They once flourished in precisely those areas where rainforests have since been cleared for oil palm.

Oil palm plantations, along with logging, fires, and other factors, destroy rainforest habitat, hinder migration patterns, and block travel corridors. Roads and plantations fragment the rainforest, facilitate encroaching settlements, and make animals accessible to illegal hunting and poaching. If they enter plantations while searching for food outside the rainforest, animals may be killed by workers. They are also at risk when plantation companies set forest fires to clear land for oil palm; some fires burn out of control, demolishing much larger areas than anticipated.

Plantations also pollute the soil and water with pesticides and untreated palm oil-mill effluent, cause soil erosion and increased sedimentation in rivers, and cause air pollution due to forest fires.

The demand for palm oil is forecast to double by 2020. To achieve that production increase, 1,160 new square miles will have to be planted every year for 20 years. Indonesia has 26,300 square miles more forest land officially allocated for new oil palm plantations; Malaysia has almost 3,000 square miles more. The expected thousands of square miles of new plantings on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo could kill off the remaining orangutans, rhinos, and tigers.
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Palm oil is forecast to be the world's most produced and internationally traded edible oil by 2012. Malaysia and Indonesia account for 83 percent of production and 89 percent of global exports. Oil palm is grown as an industrial plantation crop, often (especially in Indonesia) on newly cleared rainforest or peat-swamp forests rather than on already degraded land or disused agricultural land. Since the 1970s, the area planted with oil palm in Indonesia has grown over 30-fold to almost 12,000 square miles. In Malaysia, the area devoted to oil palm has increased 12-fold to 13,500 square miles.

 With increasing numbers of palm oil plantations. wildlife habitat becoming smaller and smaller. In Lahad Datu particularly Matamba Estate, the palm plantation where I work,.is an example of area the elephants have no place to live on. In Tabin Wildlife Reserve forest is being disturbed by an illegal hunters.
Tabin Wildlife is situated in between of palm plantations company including Matamba. The elephants meddle in to Matamba every cause by illegal hunters disturbances and looking for food.

These elephants were destroying Our newly Planted Palm oil plants. Our Plantation is now on replanting . The palm oil plants are still very small that the elephants can easily eat its leaves.  The small palm tree  were unrooted from the ground.










By: Deksi Sakilan