Celebrations over a newly classified elephant subspecies were cut short in June 2024, when concerns were raised over the number of Bornean elephants — also known as the Borneo pygmy elephant ...

With Osman’s guidance, we soon found ourselves only a few metres from a Bornean elephant family. We were all silent. There’s something almost timeless about being near wild elephants.

Now, there are only 1,000 Bornean elephants left in the wild-but there’s hope for them yet. Recently, the Bornean elephant has made it onto the International Union for the Conservation of Nature ...

Shine is one of two other adult elephants at the Oregon Zoo, the third being a Borneo elephant named Chendra, who in 2019 ...

KOTA KINABALU: The roles and capabilities of the Bornean Elephant Sanctuary (BES) must be enhanced for both conservation and tourism, says Sabah Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk ...

Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia: The Borneo pygmy elephant may not be native to Borneo after all. Instead, the population could be the last survivors of the Javan elephant race – accidentally saved from ...

It’s been days since the inhumane killing and mutilation of an endangered Borneo pygmy elephant near Maliau Basin and state ...

Focus: Studying the fossil origins of the Asian elephant, and the status of living subspecies such as the Borneo elephant. Museum researchers are studying the morphology of Borneo elephants, an ...

It is an important refuge for many endemic forest species, including the Borneo elephant, the eastern Sumatran rhinoceros, the Bornean clouded leopard, the Bornean rock frog, the hose's palm civet ...

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Elephant encroachment into plantation estates remain a recurring problem ... that classifies a distinct subspecies of elephants living on the island of Borneo as endangered. IUCN’s announcement last ...