Endangered Pygmy Elephant Shot Dead For Destroying Crops on Borneo Island
http://www.newsweek.com/endangered-pygmy-elephant-shot-dead-destroying-crops-borneo-island-1043915
A villager in a remote settlement shot and killed an endangered pygmy elephant on Borneo island after it destroyed palm oil trees.
Local wildlife officials are now investigating the elephant’s death after the body was found on the side of a road Monday on the Malaysian part of Borneo, a local wildlife department director Augustine Tuuga told the AFP.