A Global Positioning System (GPS) collar was installed on a female elephant by the Wildlife Department in collaboration with the Borneo Elephant Conservation Centre (pic)
Published on: Thursday, February 18, 2021
By: Bernama Wildlife officer Jibius Dausip checking on injured elephant.
Kota Kinabalu: Their peaceful nature has earned them the ‘gentle giant’ moniker. Sadly, Sabah’s Borneo pygmy elephant – an elephant subspecies found mainly on the island of Borneo – population is declining fast due to habitat loss and the never-ending human-animal conflict.
Now and then reports emerge of villagers and plantation workers stumbling on the remains of elephants that died of various causes, including poaching, poisoning and revenge or retaliation killing.
The latest is the badly mutilated carcass of an elephant that was discovered in an oil palm plantation in Tongod, Kinabatangan, on Jan 20.