For more news visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.com or Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision <br />A newborn male Sumatran baby elephant is the latest addition to an Indonesian safari park. Being on the verge of extinction, the birth of a new Sumatran elephant is a welcoming sign for the zoo. <br /><br />Indonesia Safari Park in West Java Province welcomed a new addition to its herd of Sumatran elephants on Monday, with the arrival of a baby boy. <br /><br />The birth of the baby elephant is a success for the zoo and conservation activists. Sumatran elephants' natural habitat is shrinking due to deforestation. <br /><br />The park started with 20 elephants in 1985 but the number has more than doubled now to 45. <br /><br />[Mulyono, Elephant Keeper]: <br />"The park currently has 43 elephants in the exhibition area and adding Januar and his mother, there are 45 Sumatran elephants." <br /><br />According to the World Wildlife Fund, Sumatran elephants are threatened with extinction. <br /><br />Sumatran elephants are a subspecies of the Asian elephant found only in Indonesia.
