A baby elephant was killed by an oncoming vehicle on the Gerik-Jeli Highway which cuts through elephant roaming areas, and this is the latest in a long line of similar cases.
"In the past 100 years, elephants have dwindled down to worrying numbers," said Lim Teck Wyn, a PhD candidate on Human-Elephant Conflict at the University of Nottingham Malaysia.
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