Jumbo with unique 'sabre' tusks found killed


KOTA KINABALU: Conservationists entered the New Year in shock as a Borneo pygmy elephant with unique “sabre” tusks was found brutally killed.

The elephant had actually been rescued from a plantation in Tawau three months earlier and fitted with a satellite collar as part of efforts to monitor its movements.

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