Borneo Pygmy Elephants (11931821905)

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Description: Two more of the Borneo Pygmy Elephants. Probably the biggest threat to the species is the large scale clearing of the forest for the confounded oil palm plantation. Apart from habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation, which are driven by an expanding human population lead in turn to increasing conflicts between humans and elephants when elephants eat or trample crops. Hundreds of people and elephants are killed annually as a result of such conflicts. Expanding human development disrupts their migration routes, depletes their food sources, and destroys their habitat. (Kota Kinabalu, East Malaysia, Nov. 2013). Date: 1 November 2013, 00:00. Source: Borneo Pygmy Elephants. Author: shankar s. from Dubai, united arab emirates.