for the first time since Linnaeus named the species in 1758, a type specimen (lectotype) for the Asian elephant Elephas maximus. The elephants of north-east Borneo present an interesting case.

The world’s smallest elephant ... on the island of Borneo in the Malay Archipelago of Southeast Asia. DNA evidence has proved that Bornean elephants are genetically different from other Asian ...

Africa's two elephant species are still being managed as one. Forest and savannah elephants occupy different ecological niches and face different threats and should be managed in accordance with these ...

A second headless carcass of a Borneo pygmy elephant has been found in Tawau, leading the Sabah wildlife department to ...

WWF works to sustain the natural world for the benefit of people and wildlife, collaborating with partners from local to ...

Known for its biodiversity, Borneo’s Kinabatangan ... from a Bornean elephant family. We were all silent. There’s something almost timeless about being near wild elephants.

Borneo Elephants has been included as endangered species on the IUCN Red List. So far, based on informations from the Sabah Government, the elephant’s populations are 1,500 individuals, while ...

TOYOHASHI, Aichi Prefecture--A zoo here is helping to dig a well to supply water to an endangered elephant species ... are considered essential. Borneo elephants, a species on the brink of ...

As an expert on Borneo elephants, Jibius had learnt ... in between for critically endangered species such as the Bornean orangutan, pygmy elephant, sun bear, proboscis monkey and many more they ...

KOTA KINABALU: Borneo elephants ... and replicate,” said IUCN Species Survival Commission chairman, Prof Jon Paul Rodrigues. Asian elephants, one of three elephant species alive today, have ...

Elephants have long captured human imagination in art and culture, and scientists have long sought to understand them. Scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) study African ...