Kinabatangan River (Malay: Sungai Kinabatangan) is a river in Sandakan Division, northeastern Sabah of Malaysia. Lower Kinabatangan floodplain is known for its high-biodiversity habitats for wildlife such as Borneo elephants.
Comparison of the Borneo elephant population to putative source populations in DNA analysis indicates that the Borneo elephants more likely derived from Sundaic stock and are indigenous to Borneo.
Comparison of the Borneo elephant population to putative source populations in DNA analysis indicates that the Borneo elephants more likely derived from Sundaic stock and are indigenous to Borneo.
Choumeizai is lucky to see a whole big family of Borneo elephants, although Borneo elephants are smaller than the other species of elephant, they are still big amongst mammals.
The pre-eminent threats to Borneo elephants today are habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation, which are driven by an expanding human population, and lead in turn to increasing conflicts between humans and elephants when elephants eat or trample crops.
The population of elephants in Borneo continues to dwindle, now only 1,500 left in Sabah.
