Plea to save at risk species

Wildlife rangers are urging plantation owners and workers not to harm any of the elephants that pass through their land. — filepic

KOTA KINABALU: Wildlife rangers will double efforts to get plantation owners in Sabah to work with them to prevent further killings or injuring of the state’s critically endangered pygmy elephants.

Sabah Wildlife Department director Augustine Tuuga said the issue of elephants being harmed and killed was getting serious and they had no clue who the culprits were.