Smallholders, local communities urged to form crop protection teams

Elephant encroachment into farms and plantations is becoming more common in Sabah. — Filepic

KOTA KINABALU: Plantation smallholders and local communities in the east coast of Sabah are urged to form crop protection teams where human-elephant conflict is unavoidable.

Sabah Wildlife Department’s (SWD) director Augustine Tuuga said the task of protecting elephants cannot be upon the government’s shoulders alone.