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Victim awoke to see a Sumatran tiger just 2 metres away and yelled to alert his colleagues, whereby the tiger lunged forward at him. Source link

Magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck about 40km northeast of Sibolga, a coastal city in North Sumatra province, US Geological Survey says. Source link

Nearly a dozen poachers were jailed by an Indonesian court Thursday over the 2020 killing of five critically endangered Sumatran elephants and the illegal trade of their lucrative tusks, as the Southeast Asian archipelago’s battle with wildlife crime continues.Rampant deforestation has reduced the elephants’ habitat and brought them into increasing …