Fourteen endangered Borneo pygmy elephants have recently been found dead in a Malaysian forest, presenting a mystery for wildlife officials and conservationists. The recent deaths highlight the ...

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.

Ten endangered Borneo pygmy elephants found dead in a Malaysian rainforest in recent weeks may have been poisoned by something they ate, wildlife officials said on Tuesday.

WWF-Malaysia's field researcher and elephant tracker Englebert Dausip talks about his experience of tracking pygmy elephants in the forests of Borneo. Englebert "Bert" Dausip, a WWF-Malaysia field ...

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 ...

Ten endangered pygmy elephants have been found dead this month in Malaysian Borneo and are thought to have been poisoned, conservation officials said on January 29, 2013.

The Borneo pygmy elephant may not be native to the island of Borneo after all. Instead, the population could be the last survivors of the Javan elephant race -- accidentally saved from extinction ...

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 ...

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. The jungle is congested with vines and leaves that make seeing an arduous ...

Ten rare pygmy elephants are found dead in Borneo, with Malaysian officials saying they "highly suspect" poisoning.

Deprived of access to his favourite food, a pygmy elephant trumpets furiously and charges at wildlife officials, a manifestation of this rare species' battle against Malaysia's key palm oil ...

Borneo’s elephants are an alien species Borneo’s elephants are an alien species mongabay.com April 18, 2008 A new study suggests that the Borneo pygmy elephant — one of Borneo’s best known ...