First assessment finds Borneo elephant is endangered
"The population has diminished over the past 75 years, initially due to extensive logging of Borneo's forests destroying the majority of the Bornean elephants' habitat," the IUCN said in an update to its Red List on Thursday.
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This handout photo taken and released by the Sabah Wildlife Department on January 29, 2013 shows a baby elephant staying close to a dead Borneo pygmy elephant in the Gunung Rara Forest Reserve, some 130 kilometers from Tawau in Malaysia's Sabah state. (SABAH WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT / AFP)
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The first assessment of the pint-sized Bornean elephant by a global conservation authority concluded Thursday that the animal is endangered, with only an estimated 1,000 left in the