Fifteen Philippines fishermen shot dead

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Berita pertama mengenai penembakan 15 nelayan di Filipina dan berita kedua tentang peringatan bahwa gajah Sumatra bisa punah dalam waktu 30 tahun mendatang.

Fifteen Philippines fishermen shot dead

The Philippines military says gunmen have killed fifteen fishermen in Basilan province in the south of the country.

The fishermen were in three small, wooden-hulled vessels off Sibago Island when they were attacked.

An army spokesman said the authorities had ruled out the potential involvement of radical Islamist militants or Muslim guerrillas who are fighting for self-rule and are also active in Basilan.

He said the fishermen were probably attacked when they strayed into the fishing grounds of a rival.

Sebanyak 15 nelayan Filipina ditembak mati

Militer Filipina mengatakan orang-orang bersenjata membunuh 15 nelayan di Provinsi Basilan, di bagian selatan.

Para nelayan berada di tiga perahu kayu kecil di lepas pantai Pulau Sibago ketika mereka diserang.

Seorang juru bicara angkatan darat mengatakan pihak berwenang mengesampingkan kemungkinan keterlibatan militan Islam radikal atau gerilyawan Muslim yang memperjuangkan kemerdekaan dan yang aktif beroperasi di Basilan.

Dia mengatakan para nelayan mungkin diserang ketika mereka tersesat di wilayah penangkapan saingan mereka.

Sumatran elephant "closer to extinction"

Sumatran tigers decline is attributed mostly to deforestation.

There's been a warning that the Sumatran elephant could be extinct in the wild within thirty years unless immediate steps are taken to protect its habitat.

The warning comes from the environmental group WWF, which says the elephants' numbers on the Indonesian island of Sumatra have halved since 1985 (down to about two-and-a-half thousand).

Their decline is attributed mostly to deforestation. Large areas of Sumatran forest have been cleared or converted for timber, palm-oil and paper plantations.

Gajah Sumatra, "kepunahan semakin dekat"

Muncul peringatan bahwa gajah Sumatera di hutan belantara bisa punah dalam waktu 30 tahun kecuali bila diambil langkah-langkah segera untuk melindungi habitat binatang itu.

Peringatan dikeluarkan oleh organisasi lingkungan WWF yang mengatakan jumlah populasi gajah di Pulau Sumatra berkurang separuh sejak 1985 (turun menjadi sekitar 2.500 ekor).

Penurunan ini disebabkan utamanya oleh penggundulan hutan. Banyak kawasan hutan di Sumatra telah dibabat atau dikonversi menjadi perkebunan kayu, kelapa sawit dan kertas.