A six-year-old male elephant was found dead on a block of farmland in Pucok Turue village in Mane district, Pidie, Aceh, on Wednesday, allegedly due to poisoning from eating pesticide stored by a farmer in a hut in the middle of the field. Locals said they were shocked when they found the dead elephant in the irrigated field near a forest. “We do not know how the elephant died, but we found piles of fertilizer and pesticide scattered near the elephant’s remains,” Sulaiman of Pucok Turue...
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