Sabah to improve elephant-handling procedures following handler's death

KOTA KINABALU: Safer elephant handling procedures are being put in place by the Sabah Wildlife Department following last year's Christmas Day incident where a handler died after he was mauled at the Lok Kawi Wildlife Park near here.

Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Christina Liew said that a cabinet paper was being prepared for the transition from free contact management to protective contact management of captive elephants in Sabah.