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ACEH, INDONESIA - JANUARY 12: Dangerous clashes between Sumatran wild elephants and local villages are increasing as more of the Pachyderms natural habitat is cleared for forestry and farming. In just one generation more than 70 percent of the Sumatran forest has been lost. Over 30 hungry wild elephants recently attacked residential areas in Mane, Gempang and Mila sub-districts in Pidie. Forest rangers now patrol on 'tame' elephants to confront and contain their wild cousins. "It was actually the residents who asked us to capture the wild elephants, there are 33 of them. There are two male elephants that people asked to be captured. Because the two elephants had attacked their tame elephants and scared the local villagers. The elephants eat their plants, and bananas, and destroyed their rice paddies," Nurdin, Head of Wild Elephant training (PLG) said. Elephants are trained at the centre to help guard the forests and villages against wild animals - including marauding wild elephants. Deforestation and the accompanying habitat loss are the main problems. As a result, elephants raid food crops, destroy rubber, palm oil and coconut plantations and even more seriously, are increasingly responsible for the destruction of villages and an increasing number of human deaths. (Footage by Aprizal Rahmad/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)