#MPOGCFacts ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฒ๐ผ ๐ฃ๐๐ด๐บ๐ ๐๐น๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐๐.
Apart from being the smallest elephants in the world, the pygmy elephants are high on priority for the Malaysian palm oil industry in our efforts to conserve wildlife.
Surveys carried out by Sabah Wildlife Department @5rhidupanliar_ had put the number of Bornean elephants in the island to no more than 2,500 and the number is decreasing due to habitat loss and a rise in fragmentation, as a result of poaching and illegal logging.
In response to this, the Malaysian palm oil industry through the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) had pledged ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฑ.๐ฎ ๐บ๐ถ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ผ๐ป for the development of the ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฒ๐ผ ๐๐น๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ from the Malaysian Palm Oil Green Conservation Foundation (MPOGCF), as a corrective initiative to protect endangered wildlife such as the Bornean pygmys.