Fatal crocodile attacks in Indonesia put spotlight on habitat destruction

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Two fatal crocodile attacks in North Sumatra, Indonesia, highlight concerns about habitat destruction and its impact on human-wildlife encounters. Environmental groups point to logging, plantations, and land-use changes as factors destabilizing ecosystems and increasing dangerous contact.

The recent deaths of two men from crocodile attacks in North Sumatra have put a spotlight on Indonesia’s record as the country with the world’s highest number of such killings annually, raising questions over whether habitat destruction is pushing people and wildlife into increasingly dangerous contact. Environmental groups said the deaths reflected a wider pattern across the archipelago, where logging, plantations and other land-use changes had destabilised ecosystems. The first incident was on...