. >> [speaking local language] [elephant growls] >> this is rajah the elephant. he's been named by the villagers who found him in a trap, on a plantation about a month ago. apparently he's just over a year old. as cute as he is, it's a really tragic story. he's on his own, chained up, padlocked, well away from his family, where he should be learning the skills to survive in the wild. and effectively, he's now doomed to a life of... being in a camp somewhere. and this is--this is really very much the heart of the problem here in sumatra. the community are telling us that they're really fed up with the elephants coming in and taking food crops every day, from the wild. and they feel pretty strongly about, you know, the government needs to help them, not the elephants. and they're refusing to let rajah go, to give him to the government vets, until they get compensation for their crops. >> that compensation never came, and shortly after these images were taken, rajah died. >> [speaking local language] >> the body of an elephant lies rotting on the forest floor. a cas