“PERHILITAN is a governmental organisation that is responsible for the protection, management and conservation of wildlife and national parks in Peninsular Malaysia.
The “Elephas Maximus” species or known as the Asian elephant inhabits north-eastern Borneo, Indonesia and Malaysia. Since 1986, the Asian elephant has been listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List as the population has declined by at least 50 percent over the last three generations, estimated to be 60–75 years. The elephants are pre-eminently threatened by loss, degradation, and fragmentation of habitat. PERHILITAN through National Elephant Conservation Centre Kuala Gandah protects the wild elephants by translocating those that were involved in Human-Wildlife Conflict back to their suitable habitat.
When PERHILITAN finds / captures any wild elephant, they will transport those elephants to the Kuala Gandah Elephant Conservatory Centre. Malaysian tropical forest is getting thinner by the day, and wild animals can be spotted moving nearer to civilization. These wild elephants sometimes do pose a threat to villagers when they move as a herd. Therefore, PERHILITAN serves to translocate these elephants to the elephant sanctuary.
Guess I knew Elephants are big, but did not expect them to be THAT big. Strong trunk on this one too!
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