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HELP SAVE OUR ELEPHANTS

Donate to help save our elephants and receive a tax exemption receipt.

© WWF-Malaysia / Engelbert Dausip


A mother elephant and calf photographed in Sabah
© Engelbert Dausip / WWF-Malaysia

On Mother’s Day, a tragic scene unfolded on the Gerik-Jeli Highway — a mother elephant grieving over her calf, killed in a road accident.

This heart breaking moment is a reminder: our roads cut through ancient wildlife habitats like Royal Belum and Temengor, home to elephants, Malayan tigers, and more. In Sabah, similar threats loom — forest conversion and road development continue to fragment key habitats in places like Tabin and Tawau, endangering Bornean elephants, orangutans, and other wildlife.

We need urgent action:
⚠️ Speed bumps at key crossing points
🌉 Wildlife crossings
🚨 Strict speed limit enforcement

Please donate today so WWF-Malaysia can map elephant movements to secure key habitats and build wildlife crossings in collaboration with government agencies and other partners


HELP SAVE OUR ELEPHANTS


You will get a tax exemption receipt and thank you gift (varies according to donation amount and delivered within Malaysia only) for your important and valuable donation.
WHERE DO THEY LIVE?

Bornean elephants are found mostly in the Malaysian state of Sabah. This makes Sabah home to the easternmost range of Asian elephants.

ONLY 1,000 LEFT

These endemic Bornean elephants are losing their homes and families. With only about 1,000 of them left in the wild in Sabah, urgent and continuous actions need to be taken in order to conserve these gentle giants.
© Christy Williams / WWF

THREATS


Sadly, Bornean elephants are:

  • Losing their habitat due to displacement by large-scale agriculture, plantations and the construction of road infrastructures that do not incorporate elephant requirements.

  • Coming into more contact with people thus increasing human elephant conflict due to loss and fragmentation of forests.
© David James / WWF

URGENT CONSERVATION EFFORTS

 

Donate today and help WWF-Malaysia to:

  • Conduct elephant satellite collaring to identify their key space requirements and to reduce future conflict.

  • Establish wildlife corridors to connect fragmented habitats.

  • Promote coexistence between humans and wildlife.

  • Collaborate with government and non-government agencies on wildlife surveys, research and capacity building for protected area management.

  • ​Support sustainable products such as RSPO certified palm oil products and FSC certified paper products.