The bull elephant that was culled a day after it trampled to death a plantation worker in Tawau, Sabah.
The bull elephant in Tawau, Sabah, that killed a man should not have been put down by the Sabah Wildlife Department, said Datuk Dr Dionysius Sharma, executive director/CEO of WWF-Malaysia in a press statement.
When confronting elephants, there should be restraint rather than revenge, as killing elephants merely addresses the symptom of a problem, which is Human-Elephant Conflict (HEC) caused by expansion of plantations in Sabah, he explained.
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