Sabah’s Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary is home to some of the densest populations of megafauna in Malaysia. The tenuous patchwork of protected habitat along its namesake river is also surrounded by ...

Gerik, Perak, Malaysia, 13th March 2018–Authorities have nabbed four men and busted an elephant poaching gang that they believe has slaughtered 20 pachyderms for their tusks over the last decade. A ...

Customs authorities in Malaysia seized two containers full of 695 elephant tusks in the country’s largest port, reports TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network. The shipment — labeled as ...

Elephants are poisoned sometimes to make land safe for farming A forlorn and frightened pygmy elephant calf, reaching out its trunk to touch its dead mother. That’s the heartbreaking scene local ...

A wild elephant in Malaysia has died after being hit by a tourist bus on a busy highway, an official said Friday, the second pachyderm to meet its end in the area in two months. The 10-year-old bull ...

A two-year-old elephant was found dead Friday by Malaysian state officers, according to a conservation group that posted the horrifying photos on social media. The images struck a chord on Facebook ...

Only about 1,200 wild Asian Elephants, also known as Elephas Maximus, are left in Malaysia -- but one conservation is looking to change that. The National Elephant Conservation Center in Kuala Gandah, ...

The elephant has tusks that grow backward, a wildlife official said. — -- A team of wildlife experts spotted a rare pygmy elephant with "saber-tooth"-like tusks in the Malaysian state of Sabah on ...

A pygmy elephant fatally gored an Australian tourist in a remote Malaysian wildlife reserve on Borneo island, an official said Thursday. Jenna O’Grady Donley died of injuries from the attack Wednesday ...

Customs official Azis Yacub says inspectors at Port Klang harbor last week found 24 tons of unprocessed tusks hidden in secret compartments in containers of timber. He says the shipment originated ...

Way back in 1999, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, a doyen of research into African elephants, made an intriguing discovery. Using the Global Positioning System (gps) to track them—a first—he found that they ...

An excavator dug a path for them to climb out, video showed. Elephants trapped in a muddy hole were saved in Malaysia on Tuesday, and their rescue was captured on video by Malaysia’s Department of ...