A baby elephant in Indonesia’s Sumatra island died on Tuesday after losing half its trunk in a trap set by poachers who prey on the endangered species, officials said, despite efforts to amputate and treat its wounds.“We tried our best, but it couldn’t be helped,” said Agus Arianto, the head of Aceh province’s conservation agency. “Its trunk was getting rotten and no longer functioning.”The one-year-old female was among the last of the island’s 700 wild Sumatran elephants. She was found very…
