Wildlife rangers from SWD’s rescue unit with elephant calves at the Bornean Elephant Sanctuary.
THE urgent need to protect the Asian elephant, a keystone species that symbolises the balance of tropical ecosystems, was reaffirmed at the 2025 International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Congress in Abu Dhabi, the UAE.
During the gathering of wildlife experts and conservation policymakers, Malaysia drew attention as one of the few countries with two significant wild elephant populations, one in Peninsular Malaysia and the other, a unique subspecies − the Bornean elephant − in Sabah.
