KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Government is proceeding with an exchange programme with three foreign zoos involving 10 Borneo pygmy elephants from the state, pending approval from a Science, Technology and Environment Ministry panel.
State Tourism, Culture and Environment Assistant Minister Datuk Karim Bujang said if approval was granted by the ministry’s Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species and of Flora and Fauna (CITES) science authority, nine of the animals would be sent to two zoos in China and one to Japan.