KOTA KINABALU: Wildlife researchers are tracking three Sumatran rhinos roaming an isolated patch of forest in Sabah’s east coast, hoping to eventually relocate the animals to a conservation area.
WWF-Malaysia Borneo Programme species conservation manager Raymond Alfred said the rhinos -- a male adult, a female and a calf -- were confined to less than 1,000ha of forest surrounded by oil palm plantations.
“This is obviously insufficient for the rhinos which require a home range of about five square kilometres (500ha) per animal,” he said following a media briefing about WWF’s programmes in Sabah Tuesday.
He said WWF was working with the Sabah Wildlife Department that would decide when the translocation of the rhinos would take place.
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