Malaysian Oil Palm Green Conservation Foundation: Achieving coexistence with wild elephants in Johor (VIDEO)

Malaysian Oil Palm Green Conservation Foundation: Achieving coexistence with wild elephants in Johor (VIDEO)

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 29 — Over the past 30 years, the wild elephant population in Johor has been severely affected by deforestation for agriculture and plantation expansion. With limited areas for foraging and roaming, elephants invariably cross paths with people, causing human-elephant interactions (HEI). When palm oil smallholder Hamzah Ahmad first began clearing his plot … Read more

Malaysian Palm Oil Green Conservation Foundation: Achieving coexistence with wild elephants in Johor (VIDEO)

Malaysian Palm Oil Green Conservation Foundation: Achieving coexistence with wild elephants in Johor (VIDEO)

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 29 — Over the past 30 years, the wild elephant population in Johor has been severely affected by deforestation for agriculture and plantation expansion. With limited areas for foraging and roaming, elephants invariably cross paths with people, causing human-elephant interactions (HEI). When palm oil smallholder Hamzah Ahmad first began clearing his plot … Read more

In Terengganu, water surge hits Kenyir Conservation Centre twice; elephants safe, says director

In Terengganu, water surge hits Kenyir Conservation Centre twice; elephants safe, says director

KUALA BERANG, Jan 25 — Heavy rains since Monday resulted in the Kenyir Elephant Conservation Village (KECV) here being hit by a water surge yesterday afternoon and this morning. There was no danger to anyone when both incidents occurred, as there were no visitors or tourists since the centre was closed yesterday due to bad … Read more

Heartbreak in Zimbabwe park: Elephants’ desperate hunt for water

Heartbreak in Zimbabwe park: Elephants’ desperate hunt for water

HWANGE (Zimbabwe), Dec 31 — Storm clouds are finally gathering over Zimbabwe’s biggest animal reserve, but it has come too late for more than 110 elephants that have died in a searing, extended drought. There is little that Simba Marozva and other rangers at the Hwange National Park can do except cut the tusks off … Read more

Wild elephants destroy crops in four Orang Asli settlements in Kelantan

Wild elephants destroy crops in four Orang Asli settlements in Kelantan

GUA MUSANG, Nov 28 — Farmers from four Orang Asli settlements in Pos Belatim are grappling with the destructive incursions of wild elephants which are damaging and eating their crops. They claim that the animals were roaming in Kampung Chemal, Kampung Cacuh, Kampung Kajak, and Kampung Kenben, and that they could be from the same … Read more