The Old Woman At the End of the Wilderness

The tenacity of a mighty woman in a village adjacent to the jungle, located in the hinterland of Bireun District of Pante Peusangan Village whose name, the 50 year old woman, is waiting for the fall of durian fruit (boh drien) while quoting firewood on Tuesday 27 January 2018.

Interestingly, his own land, Khamsiah vying to harvest the results kebunya with the largest wildlife in the world today, the Sumatran elephant into a competitor of durian fruit ushered by humans with animals.

When the night comes, the Sumatran elephants who first eat durian cook the old mothers, so that Khamsiah must precede the big creatures, which comes uncertain, the wild elephants must always cross the village at the time of biological wild elephants that still remain on the island of Sumatra.

"Wild elephants always come in the dark, whether in the afternoon or at night, they come colonizing," explained Khamsiah. If there is no durian fruit, then the young durian tree is the target of wild elephant feed, or pinang nut ever planted in Khamsiah garden, now pinangnya only a few stems.

In the garden, Khamsiah always lit a fire around the durian tree. He admitted accustomed to the arrival of wild elephant colonies to his garden, once once faced directly with wild elephants, the elephant was surprised and I also directly back toward the village, "said Khamsiah told his experience to the author.

Logically, the wild elephant entourage continues to be expelled from the village to another village, and continuously as it is, over time, wild elephants will continue to be pushed into the remaining jungle of Aceh's increasingly narrow jungle, time will never stop to be able to sustain elephant life wild one day.

In Indonesia, dozens of wild elephants continue to die each year, with different causes of death, observers of wild Sumatran elephants, NGOs, BKSDA and KLHK, also do not remain silent to inhibit the potential extinction of Sumatran elephant and other wildlife populations, this problem can not be prevented if only by talking.