Indonesia Expands Wildlife Haven
Sumatra's endangered elephants and tigers should get a boost from a move by Indonesia's government to expand one of their last havens, a national park on the island of Sumatra, the conservation group WWF said Thursday. The area of the park, Tesso Nilo in Riau Province, is to be more than doubled to 212,500 acres. But the group warned that increased efforts would be vital to ensure that poaching and illegal logging did not continue. WWF, whose headquarters are outside Geneva, said 60 to 80 elephants and about 50 tigers were believed to live in the area to be covered by the park.