Elephant deaths: Plantation Ministry to discuss solutions with Sabah Wildlife Dept


KOTA KINABALU: The Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry will meet up with Sabah wildlife authorities to find out the reason for scores of elephant deaths in and around oil palm estates in the state.

Its minister Datuk Zuraida Kamaruddin said she was taken aback to learn that many Bornean pygmy elephants have met their deaths in plantation areas on Sabah's east coast.

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