Sabah wildlife gets land to expand animal’s habitat

KOTA KINABALU: Borneo pygmy elephants and proboscis monkeys surviving in strips of forests along the lower Sungai Kinabatangan area are getting a “helping hand” from the Land of the Rising Sun.

With contributions from Japan and other parties, a group called the Borneo Conservation Trust has begun acquiring privately-owned land along the waterway to expand the habitat for the animals.

Trust chief operating officer Dr Tsubouchi Toshinori said the group had so far acquired a 6ha plot and was considering buying a bigger 8ha area by the year-end.

An American firm had also pledged a donation to enable the group to acquire a 2ha plot where negotiations were ongoing, he said after witnessing the presentation of a boat and four-wheel-drive vehicle by Japan’s Itochu Corp to the Sabah Wildlife Department here.

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