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While many visitors head to Borneo to see animals like orangutans or elephants, frogs are increasingly getting their turn in ...
Dodging fire-ants, snakes and millions of nighttime creepy-crawlies, a group of trekkers advances through the humid Bornean ...
Authorities found the carcass of another endangered Borneo pygmy elephant, believed to have been dead for two weeks, in the Gunung Rara Forest Reserve late Wednesday, marking the 14th such death ...
Found only on the island of Borneo, mostly in the Malaysian state of Sabah, there are fewer than 1,000 Bornean elephants left in the wild, and they are classified as endangered.
Chendra, an elephant from northern Borneo in the Malaysian state of Sabah, arrived at the Oregon Zoo in 1999 and has remained in its care ever since. July 5, 2025.
Borneo elephants have recently been classified as endangered, with their population dwindling to just 1,000 individuals in the wild, highlighting the severity of their plight. This status reflects ...
Oregon Zoo elephant conservation lead Dr. Sharon Glaeser is shown visiting in June 2023 with Agathis, an orphaned Bornean elephant calf being cared for at the Borneo Elephant Sanctuary in Sabah, a ...
Between 2010 and 2017, a total of 111 elephant deaths were reported in Borneo due to poaching, compared to at least 25 during 2018 alone. What We Can Do . Caroline Pang / Getty Images.
A wildlife official attends to an orphaned three-month-old baby Borneo pygmy elephant “Joe“ at Lok Kawi Wildlife Park in Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia's Sabah state on February 6, 2013.
The elephants are only found on the island of Borneo, mostly in the Malaysian state of Sabah. Whitley Fund for Nature They have lost 60% of their natural forest habitat to logging and palm oil ...
The elephants are only found on the island of Borneo, mostly in the Malaysian state of Sabah. Whitley Fund for Nature They have lost 60% of their natural forest habitat to logging and palm oil ...