Farmers at wits’ end over jumbo issue


Trail of destruction: Ibnoh checking his oil palm tree which was destroyed by elephants at his plantation in Kampung Sukau.

KOTA KINABALU: The villagers of Kampung Sukau and Kampung Menanggol in Kinabatangan, about 380km from here, are almost at their wits’ end trying to stop wild elephants from encroaching on their farms and oil palm smallholdings and destroying their crops.

But keeping these jumbos away is no small task.

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