Only an estimated 1,000 individuals remain in the wild but conservationists remain optimistic.
The world’s smallest elephant is in danger of dying out as numbers reach just 1,000 in the wild, but there's hope it can be saved.
There's hope the elephant can be saved through conservation work, said Benoit Goossens, a wildlife biologist at Cardiff University and director of the Danau Girang Field Centre in Sabah. The elephants of Borneo have lived on the island for thousands of years, separated from mainland elephants and evolving into a distinct population.
The elephants are forced into human areas in search of food, where they may damage crops and face retribution killings. The elephants on Borneo have been assessed on the IUCN Red List for the first time as a separate subspecies of Asian elephant.
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