KUALA LUMPUR: Sabah and Sarawak have been urged to amend their wildlife protection laws to increase punishments for wildlife crimes. He was commenting on the recent killing of a pygmy elephant. On Sept 23, a pygmy elephant was shot dead in Sungai Udin near Tawau. Police seized firearms, bullets and a pair of elephant tusks during the arrests. “If Sabah and Sarawak want rangers they would need to allocate their own budget.”

Source: New Strait Times October 21, 2019 07:30 UTC