KOTA KINABALU - Ivory poachers may be responsible for the recent ... pygmy elephants that were beheaded in Tawau in 2025. A third elephant was found beheaded near Ladang Bukit Tukok in Tawau ...

The Ministry of Environment is working with national authorities to identify a group of heavily armed poachers who engaged in an April ... One of them, a baby elephant calf, was killed by a gunshot.