There are fewer than 1,000 Bornean elephants left in the wild. Logging and palm oil plantations have destroyed their habitat ...

Borneo elephants have recently been classified as endangered, with their population dwindling to just 1,000 individuals in ...

Borneo Elephants has been included as endangered species on the IUCN Red List. So far, based on informations from the Sabah Government, the elephant’s populations are 1,500 individuals, while ...

UK charity, the Whitley Fund for Nature, recognised Malaysian Dr Farina Othman with a 2025 Whitley Award for her work to save the last 300 Bornean elephants in the east coast of Sabah amid shrinking ...

Bornean elephants are purportedly the smallest elephants ... Known for its biodiversity, Borneo’s Kinabatangan River is the second-longest river in Malaysia. It meanders through rainforest ...

Focus: Studying the fossil origins of the Asian elephant, and the status of living subspecies such as the Borneo elephant. Museum researchers are studying the morphology of Borneo elephants, an ...

KOTA KINABALU: Borneo elephants, a distinct subspecies of Asian elephants, are now classified as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened ...

The Borneo pygmy elephant is a fully protected species under the Sabah Wildlife Conservation Enactment 1997. Convictions for offences can carry hefty fines and prison terms.

A second headless carcass of a Borneo pygmy elephant has been found in Tawau, leading the Sabah wildlife department to believe poachers were responsible. Wildlife director Soffian Abu Bakar said ...

“Our goal is clear – we want our captive facilities, such as the Borneo Elephant Sanctuary and Lok Kawi Wildlife Park, to be recognised internationally as centres of excellence,” she sai ...

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. In the last 40 ...