This classification highlights the urgent need for conservation efforts. The main threat to Borneo elephants is habitat loss due to deforestation and human encroachment. This has fragmented their ...

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 ...

The Bornean elephant has been classified as endangered, after losing 60% of its forest habitat to commercial oil palm cultivation. The Borneo pygmy elephant is a subspecies of the Asian elephant ...

Sabah has lost 60% of the elephant’s natural forest habitat to logging and palm oil plantations. According to one study, between 1980 and 2000, more wood was exported from Borneo than from the ...

Borneo, an island in Southeast Asia ... with the unit on several projects to create wildlife corridor habitat and reduce human-elephant conflict. In 2020, the Oregon Zoo became part of the ...

The Borneo pygmy elephant is a subspecies of the Asian elephant ... Unfortunately, both are facing significant threats, primarily owing to habitat loss, fragmentation, and illegal logging.

"The population has diminished over the past 75 years, initially due to extensive logging of Borneo's forests destroying the majority of the Bornean elephants' habitat," the IUCN said in an update ...

"We hope that by getting the Borneo elephants on to the Red List that will galvanise the efforts for their conservation to protect their habitat because the authorities will now see that the eyes ...