‘Focus on maintaining the overall elephant population’

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah wildlife conservationists should remain focused on managing the overall Borneo pygmy elephant population and not be distracted by individual cases like the recent death of a calf whose leg was nearly severed by a snare, an expert says.

Bringing Back Our Rare Animals (Bora) executive director Datuk Dr John Payne said the tragic death of the calf on June 21 should not sidetrack them from the bigger focus of managing the surviving elephant population.