Friday, May 16, 2008

FRIDAY-16 MAY 2008- WORKSHOP ON MANAGING BORNEON ELEPHANTS

Workshop on managing Borneon elephants

KOTA KINABALU:


A three-day international workshop to promote a better management of the Borneon elephant population in Sabah will be held in Tuaran from May 21-23. The workshop, themed Conservation of the Borneon Elephants, will be organised by the Wildlife Department together with its main partners, namely the Cardiff University, University Malaysia Sabah (UMS) and WWF-Malaysia. More than 100 participants from Malaysia and around the globe, including elephant biologists and experts, will present the result of the works carried out during the last eight years. They are also expected to discuss these results with all stakeholders involved in the conservation of elephants in Sabah.