Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) is astounded at the death of yet another wild elephant in Gerik, Perak. The incident occurred on January 3rd when a 40-year-old female elephant was electrocuted by a live wire on a roadwork construction site. Herds of wild elephants come into populated areas while foraging for…

Conservationists have long regarded a planned new road that would cut through the Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary in Sabah as a bad idea. But now they can prove just how bad it would be for wild animals. Conservationists and local wildlife officials have for years been monitoring the movements of 14…

Picture yourself driving along a highway when suddenly a herd of wild elephants appears by the side of the road. A hair-raising situation, that, yes. Yet this is what happens regularly along the East-West Highway, which runs between the district capital of Gerik in Perak and the district of Jeli…