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World's smallest elephant in danger of dying out
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg64y133702oWorld's smallest elephant in danger of dying out
35 minutes ago
By Helen Briggs, BBC environment correspondent
The world’s smallest elephant is in danger of dying out as numbers reach just 1,000 in the wild, but there's hope it can be saved.
The conservation body, the IUCN, which compiles the 'red list' tally of threatened species, says the Bornean elephant has lost almost all its habitat to deforestation.
The diminutive elephant, which stands at three feet smaller than its bigger Asian cousins, is found only on the island of Borneo.
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There's hope the elephant can be saved through conservation work, said Benoit Goossens, a wildlife biologist at Cardiff University and director of the Danau Girang Field Centre in Sabah.
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35 minutes ago
By Helen Briggs, BBC environment correspondent
The world’s smallest elephant is in danger of dying out as numbers reach just 1,000 in the wild, but there's hope it can be saved.
The conservation body, the IUCN, which compiles the 'red list' tally of threatened species, says the Bornean elephant has lost almost all its habitat to deforestation.
The diminutive elephant, which stands at three feet smaller than its bigger Asian cousins, is found only on the island of Borneo.
[...]
There's hope the elephant can be saved through conservation work, said Benoit Goossens, a wildlife biologist at Cardiff University and director of the Danau Girang Field Centre in Sabah.
[...]
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