Catching wild jumbos a mammoth task


  • Nation
  • Sunday, 25 Feb 2018

Easy does it: WRU rangers approaching the cow elephant before catching it on Feb 21.

KOTA KINABALU: An operation to catch two bull pygmy elephants, while preventing another 17 from damaging the property and crops of villagers in Sabah’s central Telupid district, is proving to be a mammoth task.

Rangers from the state’s Wildlife Rescue Unit (WRU) have been chased by the animals, which have resisted efforts to push them back into the jungle.

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