Working with the wild: Some of the wildlife handlers with Alam, who has been tagged with a tracking collar as part of ongoing efforts to protect and preserve Bornean elephants.
KOTA KINABALU: Alam the elephant might just hold the key to a better understanding of the endangered Bornean mammal in Sabah.
The 2.3m-tall female elephant was tagged on July 3 at an undisclosed location in central Sabah as part of ongoing efforts to protect and preserve the population and habitat of Sabah’s wildlife species, honing in on the Bornean elephant.
