Ten rare pygmy elephants found dead in Borneo
MALAYSIA: Ten endangered pygmy elephants have been found dead this
month in Malaysian Borneo and are thought to have been poisoned,
conservation officials said Tuesday.
Wildlife authorities in Sabah, a state on the eastern tip of the
island, have formed a taskforce together with the police and WWF to
investigate the deaths.
Laurentius Ambu, Sabah wildlife department director, said it received
a report last Wednesday of four dead pygmy elephants in the Gunung Rara
forest reserve.
But officials were "shocked" to find another four of the animals, a
rare sub-species of the Asian elephant, dead or dying after inspecting
the area for two days, he said.
AFP
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