Recognised for work on elephants


Nurzhafarina showing the skeleton of an elephant that died in Kinabatangan, now on display at UMS Tropical Biology and Conservation Institute gallery in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. — Bernama

FOR over two decades, Dr Nurzhafarina Othman’s life has been inextricably linked with the Bornean elephant, particularly in Sabah’s Lower Kinabatangan.

What began in 2003 as a conservation biology degree at Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) evolved into a profound mission to understand and conserve South-East Asia’s largest land mammal.

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