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Endangered elephants are being beheaded in Borneo

Elephants in Borneo's rainforest aren't just being poached—they're being decapitated. As the New York Times reports, ...

In a Remote Jungle, the Gruesome Poaching of Rare Elephants

More than a dozen Bornean elephants have been killed — including five beheaded — in Malaysia in the past 18 months, the ...
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Only 1,000 Bornean elephants left: subspecies enters IUCN 'Red List' as 'endangered'

The Borneo elephant has been added to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's 'Red List of Threatened Species.' Entering the list for the first time with an immediate grading of ...
OPB

Checking-in on Oregon Zoo’s efforts to help save the endangered Bornean elephant

Since her birth in February, Asian baby elephant Tula-tu has become a star attraction at the Oregon Zoo. Asian elephants are endangered, with roughly 40,000 of them remaining in the wild, according to ...
Yahoo

Wildlife experts uncover direct link between newly endangered island elephants and human activity: 'Could easily disappear'

The International Union for Conservation of Nature released an assessment that found that agriculture, mining, logging, and other human activities have caused Bornean elephants to become endangered.
Seattle Times

10 dead Borneo pygmy elephants feared poisoned

Ten endangered Borneo pygmy elephants have been found dead in a Malaysian forest under mysterious circumstances, and wildlife officials said Tuesday that they probably were poisoned. Carcasses of the ...
Reuters

FACTBOX:Where are Asia's endangered wild elephants?

March 16 (Reuters) -- Asia's elephants once roamed across nine million square kilometres of forests from the Iranian coast to the Indian subcontinent, Java, Sumatra and Borneo, and China. Now extinct ...