Mother\'s Love for Elephants
Rosa Rika Wahyuni is worried that habitat destruction, poaching and the illegal trade in protected animals will lead to the extinction of Sumatran elephants.
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Rosa Rika Wahyuni
The love Rosa Rika Wahyuni (38) has for the world of conservation and Sumatran elephants has grown since her university days. That love grew even greater when she became a veterinarian at the Aceh Natural Resources Conservation Center. She hasn’t counted how many animals she has taken care of.
"To care for animals, we have to be in touch with our feelings and instincts because they can\'t speak. We are the ones trying to understand what they are feeling,” Rosa Rika Wahyuni said on Wednesday (17/2/2021) as she looked after Inong, a Sumatran elephant calf (Elephas maximus sumatranus), at the Saree Elephant Conservation Center (PKG) in Aceh Besar regency.