The Pregnant Elephant and the Case of the Poisoned Pineapple

In May 2022, a brutal murder took place on Indonesia’s island of Sumatra...

It was May 2022 in Bengkalis Regency, Riau Province and the elephants were getting on everyone's nerves.

For years, the forests had been cut down to make way for oil palm plantations and acacia and eucalyptus trees that fed the global pulp and paper industry—and left the elephants to forage in ever smaller areas, leading them to enter local villages in s…