KOTA KINABALU: Kejora or Joe the pygmy elephant which gored its caretaker to death in an unfortunate incident on Christmas Day last year, is living in solitary confinement following the incident.
However, for the wellbeing of the elephant, the Sabah Wildlife Department is in the process of redesigning the elephant enclosure at the Lok Kawi Wildlife Park near here.
He said they were in the final stages of design and preparing the paperwork to ask for allocation from the state government. “We must separate both females and males because they are reproducing inside the park and we need to control the population because we don’t have much space for more elephants,” he said.There are 14 elephants including nine males in the Lok Kawi park at present, Tuuga said.
The elephant, named Baby Kejora @ Joe back in 2013, caught worldwide attention as he was the sole survivor of a poisoning that killed 14 Borneo pygmy elephants.
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