KOTA KINABALU: A weak and dehydrated young female Borneo pygmy elephant was rescued in an oil palm plantation on Sabah’s east coast amidst renewed calls by a wildlife expert for the creation of forest corridors.
State Wildlife Department director Laurentius Ambu said its personnel were alerted by Malaysian Palm Oil Board staff about the two-year-old elephant trapped in a moat within the Lahad Datu plantation.
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