eleblog

“Three Bornean Elephants have been fitted with satellite collars over the past week in Kinabatangan, marking the beginning of the first study of their social structure.” - the star online

“Since that paper, they’ve fleshed out an alternate scenario that’s decidedly more exotic. Specifically, wildlife biologist Junaidi Payne, based at the World Wide Fund for Nature-Malaysia, and colleagues now suspect that the elephants are remnants of a population believed to be extinct for more than 200 years” - The Scientist

“The proposal to set up a Borneo Elephant Conservation Alliance (Beca) is among resolutions made by experts to save the endangered Borneo pygmy elephants.” - the star online

“Dr Stephen Blake has trekked hundreds of miles on foot with pygmies to study Congo forest elephants. He talks to Stuart Coles about these ‘hidden giants” - Telegraph

“For more than a decade, the dark depths of the Knysna forest have been a lonely outpost for the last survivor of South Africa’s once great forest elephant herds. ” - IOL

“For example, WWF and other scientists just discovered in 2003 that Borneo’s pygmy elephants — isolated from mainland Asian elephants when Borneo was cut off from the mainland around 18,000 years ago — are genetically distinct from other Asian elephants and are likely a new subspecies. ” - Mongabay.com

“A fourth elephant may be living in the Knysna forest and could be a youngster of about 10 years old. This is the first indication the tiny group of Knysna elephants could be breeding. So far only three animals have been positively identified in the 40 000ha of forest.”The Mercury