As Sabah's elephant population grows, conflict with humans on the rise


Wildlife Department rangers talking to villager when tracking the bull elephant that injured a woman on Thursday.

KOTA KINABALU: An increase in the population of Sabah's Bornean pygmy elephants coupled with a decline in their habitat is resulting in more frequent incidents involving the pachyderms.

A 57-year-old woman was slightly injured when she and a husband stumbled across an adult bull elephant on Thursday in Telupid district along the state’s east coast, in the latest human-elephant conflict.

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Sabah , Bornean pygmy elephant , habitat , wildlife

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