Malaysian officials on Monday said the mutilated corpse of an endangered pygmy elephant was found on Borneo island last week with about 70 gunshot wounds and its tusks hacked off.

Malaysia's wildlife officials inspect a dead pygmy elephant in Gunung Rara Forest Reserve in the Malaysia's state of Sabah on Borneo island, in this picture taken January 23, 2013 and released to ...

Borneo's mysterious pygmy elephants may be the descendants of Javan elephants accidentally saved from extinction by a local sultan several centuries ago, the conservation group WWF said on Thursday.

A pygmy elephant was shot dead on Borneo island after it destroyed villagers' crops, a Malaysian wildlife official said Thursday, the latest of the endangered creatures to be killed.

mongabay.com August 8, 2007 Pygmy elephants are increasingly threatened by logging and forest conversion for agriculture in their native Borneo, reports a new satellite tracking study by WWF.