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The Asian elephant became a siege engine, a mount in war, a status symbol, a beast of burden, and an elevated platform for hunting during historical times in South Asia. [137] Ganesha on his vahana mūṣaka the rat, c. 1820. Asian elephants have been captured from the wild and tamed for use by humans.
All three species of elephants are classified as endangered. African bush elephants and Asian elephants are considered to be endangered species, according to the IUCN Red List, while African ...
The pre-eminent threats to the Asian elephant today are habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation, which are driven by an expanding human population, and lead in turn to increasing conflicts between humans and elephants when elephants eat or trample crops. Hundreds of people and elephants are killed annually as a result of such conflicts.
The Sumatran elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus) 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 ...
The Asian elephant can be found from western India to eastern Borneo in Southeast Asia. A total of three recognized Asian elephant subspecies exist: the indicus, found across mainland Asia, the ...
Image credits: Save Elephant Foundation. Asian elephants are endangered species and while so many of them are being abused and kept in horrible conditions, Saengduean Lek Chailert and her rescue ...
In 2020, the IUCN listed the Asian elephant as endangered due to the population declining by half over "the last three generations". [151] Asian elephants once ranged from Western to East Asia and south to Sumatra. [152] and Java. It is now extinct in these areas, [151] and the current range of Asian elephants is highly fragmented. [152]
The family of elephants had fun pulling, shaking off and eating the Christmas decorations. Family of endangered Asian elephants undecorate their Christmas tree Skip to main content