Jumbo conservation plan ready

Kota Kinabalu: The formulation of the Sabah Elephant Conservation Action Plan 2020-2030, which will boost the effort to protect and conserve the remaining 2,000 Bornean Pygmy elephants in the State, has been completed and ready to be presented to the State Cabinet for approval, said Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister, Datuk Christina Liew. “We have already completed an Elephant Conservation Action Plan 2020-2030. And this will be presented to the State Cabinet and if approved, it means we would double up our efforts in our elephant conservation.

“We will be able to able to have more allocation for increasing the number of Sabah Wildlife Department (SWD) rangers, which right now we only have 60 rangers in 14 offices throughout the whole of Sabah which are not enough. The same with veterinarians which we need to have more. “The action plan will also enable us to get more cooperation from plantation owners in our effort to create food corridors for the elephants. The action plan will also enable us to increase the penalties on those caught and found guilty of hurting and killing the elephants,” she told reporters when asked for updates on the ongoing investigations into the dead elephant found at Bimbingan 2 IOI plantation in Beluran recently.

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There have been people asking her why such a killing continue to occur, said Liew, while hoping this (action plan) can help to improve the situation further. “It is very sad because we are now down to about 2,000 Bornean Pygmy elephants in the whole State. “We don’t want the same thing like what happened to our Rhinos, where we used to have about 100 in the 60s and 70s. Now we are down to only one, the last one and she is not well. If we don’t take concerted effort to conserve the elephants, these precious wildlife mammals that only exist here will also go extinct one day.

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“Not only we need to conserve them, we may also need to reproduce them if possible,” she said, while saying she could not disclose any details on the investigations by the police and Sabah Wildlife Department on the recent dead elephant found in Beluran. The killing of the elephant in Beluran is the second case recorded in Sabah over the span of one month. The first case involved a male pygmy elephant found with 70 bullet wounds last Sept 25.

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