A young pygmy elephant along Kinabatangan riverbank.
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah will increase its border checkpoints for wildlife smuggling if it is proven that the elephant tusk smuggled to Kalimantan recently was from Sabah.
State Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Masidi Manjun said that the state government was concerned over last month’s incident of ivory smuggling because it raised the question of where the tusk originated.
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