Borneo, pygmy elephant at risk of extinction. The animal is very fond of palm oil, a precious resource for Malaysian industry, which kills the pachyderms to protect production.

Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia – WWF, together with Malaysia’s Sabah Wildlife Department, has successfully treated and returned an injured Borneo pygmy elephant back to the forest. The elephant, which was ...

The Borneo pygmy elephant is a subspecies of the Asian elephant, distinguished by their small size, with males growing up to 2.5m in height. (Wikipedia pic) The Bornean elephant, Elephas maximus ...

By Jan Vertefeuille There’s an elephant less than six metres in front of me and yet I can’t make out any part of her in the dense Borneo jungle. So congested is the jungle with vines and leaves that ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 23 — A Borneo pygmy elephant calf was caught rummaging through a worker’s quarters in Bukit Batu Kalabakan, Tawau, in an apparent search for food. A video of the incident ...

On the island of Borneo live pygmies of the elephant world. While other male Asian elephants can grow up to 9.8 feet (3 meters tall), male Borneo elephants grow to less than 8.2 feet (2.5 meters ...

KUALA LUMPUR: A pygmy elephant was shot dead on Borneo island after it destroyed villagers' crops, a Malaysian wildlife official said today, the latest of the endangered creatures to be killed ...

Pygmy elephants are increasingly threatened by logging and forest conversion for agriculture in their native Borneo, reports a new satellite tracking study by WWF. Researchers report that the ...

A pygmy elephant was shot dead on Borneo island after it destroyed villagers' crops, a Malaysian wildlife official said Thursday, the latest of the endangered creatures to be killed. The male elephant ...

A fourteenth rare Borneo pygmy elephant has been found dead of suspected poisoning, Malaysian officials said Thursday, the latest in a series of fatalities that has shaken conservation efforts.

A pygmy elephant was shot dead on Borneo island after it destroyed villagers' crops, a Malaysian wildlife official said on Thursday, the latest of the endangered creatures to be killed.