Activist calls for new elephant census in Sabah

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The last official study was done more than a decade ago. FMTNews PygmyElephant Wildlife Sabah

A pygmy elephant and its baby seen in Kinabatangan in this picture taken in 2009.

She noted that pygmy elephants were an endangered species and said the recent spate of deaths had made a new survey urgent. Nurzhafarina’s NGO describes itself an organisation dedicated to promoting co-existence between people and elephants through research and education. “Seratu Aatai” means “united” in the dialect of the Orang Sungai.“We are not doing conservation work to impress the international audience or funders,” she said. “Elephants play a huge role in keeping our forests alive, and forests provide us with oxygen.“Our aim and commitments are to preserve the elephant for the next generation.

 

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