Preserving Bornean elephant and orangutan habitat

The data collected is crucial for understanding the elephants’ migration patterns, habitat use and interactions with human-inhabited areas. By analysing this information, WWF can look to implement strategies to prevent conflicts.

Conflicts can take various forms, impacting both communities and wildlife. These include elephants raiding crops and causing damage to property, fencing and water tanks. Encounters with elephants can result in injury or worse, leading to fear and frustration among local residents.

The expansion of human settlements, infrastructure such as new roads, and agricultural activities into wildlife habitats severely impacts the natural environment of elephants, orangutans and many other species, leading to increased confrontations. Understanding these conflicts is essential to promoting coexistence and protecting wildlife.

Also supporting these efforts were teams from Sabah Wildlife Department and the Wildlife Rescue Unit (WRU). Collaborations such as this, are incredibly important in conservation efforts, allowing us to pool resources and share knowledge.

With only 1,000 Bornean elephants left in the wild, they have been classified as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.