KOTA KINABALU: The recent horrific slaughter of a jumbo is a danger sign that Sabah’s Bornean pygmy elephants could be staring at extinction before the decade is over, a conservationist has warned.
Describing the deaths of three such elephants in early days of the new year as alarming, Alexander Yee said it was time to match words with deeds as mere lip service and talk of conservation plans had failed to stop the killings.
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