Injured elephants and orphaned juveniles will be housed at the Sungai Deka Elephant Conservation Centre near Kuala Berang, Terengganu, prior to being released. - KEVIN TAN/The Star
In Terengganu, electric fencing protects farms and villages from elephants.
Terengganu may still be forest-clad, but plantations and farms are inching ever closer to these wild habitats. The result is human-wildlife conflict, a term used to describe instances when wild animals venture into villages, orchards and oil palm plantations which should not be so close to the forest in the first place.
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