KOTA KINABALU: Sabah's wildlife conservationists are geared up to ensure that no other species disappear following the extinction of the Sumatran rhinoceros in 2019.
Efforts are underway to ensure the Borneo pygmy elephants, banteng and pangolins, among others, continue to thrive in Sabah's wild through specific breeding programmes as well as prepare for scientific assisted reproduction in the future.
"That was the tragedy of the Hairy rhino ," he said at the launching of the book"The Hairy Rhinoceros" written by well-known conservationist Datuk Dr John Payne on Thursday by Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Jafry Ariffin.He added that another lesson was that"active interventions" were sometimes needed to conserve critically endangered species.
He noted that Payne, in his book, pointed towards conservation at"targeted habitat improvement inside protected areas". "The idea is that, with time, elephants will tend to prefer to stay inside the reserve because of greater food abundance there," he said. “Samples of semen with sperm are maintained in liquid nitrogen for 11 of Sabah’s native wildlife species including the pangolin, sun bear and clouded leopard.
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