Over the last ten years, rhino and elephant habitat in Southeast Asia has been rapidly logged or converted to oil palm and pulp wood plantations.
Fires used to clear land have raged out of control consuming additional forests. The smoke from the fires of the late 1990s could be seen from space and made international headlines.
WWF has worked to establish Sumatra's Bukit Tigapuluh National Park in Riau province and destroyed access to logging roads within the park to prevent illegal logging.
WWF is also working in the policy arena to develop best management practices for palm oil plantations and working with the international banking sector to discourage the financing of environmentally destructive practices.
As in other Asian regions, human-elephant conflict is a problem, and AREAS searches for ways to reduce it.
WWF has worked to establish Sumatra's Bukit Tigapuluh National Park in Riau province and destroyed access to logging roads within the park to prevent illegal logging.
WWF is also working in the policy arena to develop best management practices for palm oil plantations and working with the international banking sector to discourage the financing of environmentally destructive practices.
As in other Asian regions, human-elephant conflict is a problem, and AREAS searches for ways to reduce it.
- Northern Borneo, Malaysia & Indonesia
- Peninsular Malaysia & southern Thailand
- Riau, Sumatra, Indonesia
- Bukit Barisan Selatan, Sumatra, Indonesia
- Ujung Kulon, Java, Indonesia
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Priority Landscapes in the Indochina Bioregion
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Estimated rhino population
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Estimated elephant population*
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Greater one-horned
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Javan
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Sumatran
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| Northern Borneo ("Heart of Borneo"): Kinabatangan to Sebuku- Sembakung Landscape (Malaysia, Indonesia) |
Borneo Lowland and Montane Forests, Sundaland Rivers and Swamps |
~30-70 | <2,000 | ||
| Peninsular Malaysia & Southern Thailand |
Peninsular Malaysian Lowland and Montane Forests |
~50 | ~600 | ||
| Riau, Sumatra (Indonesia) |
Sumatran Islands Lowland and Montane Forests, Sundaland Rivers and Swamps |
~700 | |||
| Bukit Barisan Selatan, Sumatra (Indonesia) |
Sumatran Islands Lowland and Montane Forests, Sundaland Rivers and Swamps |
20-40 | present in small numbers |
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| Ujung Kulon, Java, (Indonesia) |
Banda-Flores Sea | 50-60 | |||
* Elephant population data are for the most part speculative at best. Several elephant populations have likely continued to decline, making it even more likely that numbers presented here have significant margins of error.
