C elebrations over a newly classified elephant subspecies were cut short in June 2024, when concerns were raised over the number of Bornean elephants — also known as the Borneo pygmy elephant ...

The elephants are only found on the island of Borneo, mostly in the Malaysian state of Sabah. Whitley Fund for Nature. ... There are fewer than 1,000 Bornean elephants left in the wild.

Chendra, an elephant from northern Borneo in the Malaysian state of Sabah, arrived at the Oregon Zoo in 1999 and has remained in its care ever since. June 27, 2025. contribute now.

A wildlife official attends to an orphaned three-month-old baby Borneo pygmy elephant “Joe“ at Lok Kawi Wildlife Park in Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia's Sabah state on February 6, 2013.

Between 2010 and 2017, a total of 111 elephant deaths were reported in Borneo due to poaching, compared to at least 25 during 2018 alone. What We Can Do . Caroline Pang / Getty Images.

The Borneo pygmy elephant is a subspecies of the Asian elephant, distinguished by their small size, with males growing up to 2.5m in height. (Wikipedia pic) The Bornean elephant, Elephas maximus ...

Oregon Zoo elephant conservation lead Dr. Sharon Glaeser is shown visiting in June 2023 with Agathis, an orphaned Bornean elephant calf being cared for at the Borneo Elephant Sanctuary in Sabah, a ...

There’s an elephant less than six metres in front of me and yet I can’t make out any part of her in the dense Borneo jungle. The jungle is congested with vines and leaves that make seeing an arduous ...

Shine is one of two other adult elephants at the Oregon Zoo, the third being a Borneo elephant named Chendra, who in 2019 suffered a miscarriage early during her pregnancy.

The elephants are only found on the island of Borneo, mostly in the Malaysian state of Sabah. Whitley Fund for Nature They have lost 60% of their natural forest habitat to logging and palm oil ...

Found only on the island of Borneo, mostly in the Malaysian state of Sabah, there are fewer than 1,000 Bornean elephants left in the wild, and they are classified as endangered.