Authorities found an elephant dead in Sumatra, an island in Indonesia, with its tusks ripped off.

Local conservation officials said that the Sumatran Elephant was a 40-year-old male.

The Sumatran officials believe the elephant has been a victim of poaching, which is done to take the tusks of the elephant.

Tusks are sold in the illegal wildlife trade, where it gets sold to people who believe in black magic.

Authorities found the dead body of the elephant on Monday in Riau.

A plantation worker saw the dead elephant and reported the incident to the local authorities.

Preliminary investigations indicate that the Sumatran Elephant had been dead for nearly a week.

The head of the elephant was cut off and its severed trunk was found nearly a meter away from its body.

Local authorities believe the elephant was hunted, killed, and got its head cut off so poachers could remove the tusks.

An investigation for the horrible act has been launched and the police are now trying to find the people who killed the elephant.

There are only 2,000 Sumatran Elephants living in the wild right now.

With current deforestation and poaching rates, the animals could go extinct in the coming years.