Elephant locations in Malaysia

33 locations has kept elephants in Malaysia

There is presently 105 (35,67) living elephants in locations in Malaysia in this database

Malaysia
Region:	Malaysia is in this database included in asia
Wild elephants:	Malaysia has about 3000wild elephants. Source:
Location holdings:	33 locations has kept 150 elephants in Malaysia (Database tables with collection of elephants further down on the page)
Elephants in locations	105 (35,67) living 45 (12,18) dead

Wild population numbers are divided into: (1. Malaysia (Peninsular): 1450, 2. Borneo: 2435)

Hundreds have been removed to national parks since the 1970s, to stop raids on plantations as jungles were cleared. Translocation has ensured healthy elephant populations.

Malaysia also has a new (2003) subspecies of Asian elephant, officially named as Borneo pygmy elephant, (Elephas maximus borneensis), estimated to be less than 1,500, most of them living in Sabah.

2008: population was 1,250-1,466 Peninsula and 1,100-1,600 Borneo (Sukumar 2008)

2011: Malaysia has about 3885 (min. 2423, max. 5347) wild elephants. Source:Malaysia (Peninsular): Saaban et al. (2011), Borneo: Alfred et al. (2011). Malaysia put into place the Management & Ecology of Malaysian Elephants (MEME) project in 2011 to further study and collect data on the country’s wild elephant populations with the end goal of developing evidence-based approaches to HEC.

2020: It is estimated that there are less than 3000 individual elephants left in Peninsular Malaysia including the endangered Borneo Pygmy elephants found in Sabah.

Human-elephant conflict (HEC)

Data revealed that elephants in Peninsular Malaysia have lost 68% percent of their natural range to human encroachment in the last 40 years.

In the remaining 32% of space that they occupy, elephants are said to be living very close to human settlements, and often enough resulting in HEC in around 60% of these areas.

Borneo

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Captive elephants

Elephant ownership in Malaysia is regulated by the Act 716 (which replaced Act 76). Before Act 76 was implemented (in 1972), there was no proper registration of captive elephants.

In 1960, only two captive elephants were recorded in Malaya (Harrison 1960). This trend has reversed since the creation of EMU and the number of captive elephants increased to 20 in the mid-nineties (Daim 1995), and to as many as 62 in 2011.

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan, Facts about elephants in Malaysia. Elephant Encyclopedia, (2024) available online retrieved 2024-12-03 at https://www.elephant.se/country.php?name=Malaysia.
(archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources, among others

Current status of elephants in Malaysia (Peninsular), by Saaban et al. (2011), and Borneo by Alfred et al. (2011) http://www.asesg.org/gajah35.htm">Gajah nr 35, 2012. (Journal of the IUCN/SSC Asian Elephant Specialist Group)

https://www.therakyatpost.com/2020/10/20/why-we-should-be-alarmed-by-this-wild-elephant-getting-its-foot-badly-hurt-by-a-hunters-trap-in-kelantan/

https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2020/10/633288/two-female-pachyderms-25-rangers-help-relocate-kuala-krai-wild-elephant

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2020/10/09/um-paleontologists-discover-fossil-of-extinct-elephant-in-gopeng-cave

https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2020/09/626196/anonymous-donor-gives-10-tonne-truck-sabah-wildlife-dept-elephant-rescue

https://www.malaymail.com/news/life/2020/09/07/after-30-years-elephants-continue-to-be-saved-by-perhilitans-national-eleph/1900859

http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2017/03/14/chained-elephant-in-good-shape-says-natural-resources-and-environment-ministry/

http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1921177

http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2016/02/27/sabah-wildlife-concerned-over-rising-number-of-orphaned-baby-elephants/

http://www.asianews.network/content/alarm-over-elephant-inbreeding-sabah-10219

http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=98786

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24825195

http://www.kesedar.gov.my/en/lata-rek

Don Melnick, Genetic assessment of Borneo elephants: origin and conservation implications, at https://www.academia.edu/25838024/Genetic_assessment_of_Borneo_elephants_origin_and_conservation_implications?email_work_card=title

Internal relevant links

The elephant database startpage. Statistics
News about elephants in Malaysia (From the sister site Elephant News)

Name	Elephant collection				Place
AFamosa Animal World Safari (zoo) Kept totally 9 elephants	, 9 present (1,8)	0 births	0 relocated	0 deaths	Melaka (map) Alor Gajah
Borneo Company Ltd (BCL) (camp) Kept totally 7 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	0 relocated	7 deaths	Kuching? (map) Sarawak Borneo
Borneo Elephant Sanctuary (BES) (sanctuary) Kept totally 3 elephants	, 1 present (0,0)	0 births	0 relocated	2 deaths	Kinabatangan (map)Sandakan Division Sabah Borneo
Borneo unspecified location (wild) Kept totally 4 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	4 births	4 relocated	0 deaths	(map) Borneo
Danga Bay Pet Zoo (Teluk Danga) (zoo) Kept totally 1 elephants	, 1 present (0,0)	0 births	0 relocated	0 deaths	Johor Bahru, Johor
Gunung Rara Forest Reserve (wild) Kept totally 12 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	12 births	0 relocated	12 deaths	Sabah, Borneo
Ibrahim Yahya (private) Kept totally 4 elephants	, 4 present (1,3)	0 births	0 relocated	0 deaths	Kota Bharu Kelantan
Johor Bahru Zoo (zoo) Kept totally 2 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	2 relocated	0 deaths	Johor Bahru
Kemaman Recreational Park and Mini Zoo (zoo) Kept totally 0 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	0 relocated	0 deaths	Chukai Terengganu
Kenyir Elephant Village (KEV) (camp) Kept totally 13 elephants	, 13 present (6,7)	0 births	0 relocated	0 deaths	Kuala Berang (map) Terengganu
Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary (wild) Kept totally 6 elephants	, 6 present (1,5)	6 births	0 relocated	0 deaths	Kinabatangan
Kong Thai Sawmill (camp) Kept totally 0 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	0 relocated	0 deaths	Borneo
Kuala Gandah Elephant Conservation Education Centre (camp) Kept totally 53 elephants	, 27 present (8,18)	0 births	19 relocated	7 deaths	Pahang
Kuala Krai Mini Zoo (zoo) Kept totally 2 elephants	, 1 present (1,0)	0 births	1 relocated	0 deaths	Kuala Krai
Lahad Datu District (wild) Kept totally 1 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	1 births	1 relocated	0 deaths	Lahad Datu Sabah, Borneo
Langkawi Elephant Adventures (zoo) Kept totally 2 elephants	, 1 present (1,0)	0 births	1 relocated	0 deaths	Langkawi
Lata Rek Forest Reserve (wild) Kept totally 1 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	1 births	1 relocated	0 deaths	Kuala Krai (map)Kuala Krai District Kelantan
Lok Kawi Wildlife Park (Sabah Zoo) (zoo) Kept totally 23 elephants	, 16 present (6,10)	6 births	3 relocated	4 deaths	Penampang (map) Sabah, Borneo
Malaysia unspecified location (camp) Kept totally 16 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	47 births	16 relocated	0 deaths	(map)
Melaka Zoo (Malacca Zoo) (zoo) Kept totally 17 elephants	, 5 present (2,3)	0 births	11 relocated	1 deaths	Ayer Keroh
Muhammad Shah II of Terengganu (private) Kept totally 4 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	0 relocated	4 deaths	Terengganu
Negara National Zoo (zoo) Kept totally 5 elephants	, 3 present (1,2)	1 births	1 relocated	1 deaths	Negara
Pekan Forest Reserve (wild) Kept totally 2 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	2 relocated	0 deaths	Pahang
Piah Forest Reserve (wild) Kept totally 1 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	0 relocated	1 deaths	Perak
Royal London Circus (circus) Kept totally 3 elephants	, 1 present (1,0)	0 births	0 relocated	2 deaths
Saleng Zoo (zoo) Kept totally 0 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	0 relocated	0 deaths	Johor
Sepilok Rehabilitation Centre (sanctuary) Kept totally 2 elephants	, 1 present (1,0)	0 births	1 relocated	0 deaths	Sandakan, Sabah
Sultan Muizz ud-Din of Sulu (private) Kept totally 1 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	0 relocated	1 deaths	Sabah, Borneo
Sungai Ketiar elephant sanctuary (camp) Kept totally 5 elephants	, 5 present (2,3)	0 births	0 relocated	0 deaths	Kuala Terengganu (map) Terengganu
Taiping Zoo and Night Safari Malaysia (zoo) Kept totally 11 elephants	, 9 present (2,7)	6 births	0 relocated	2 deaths	Taiping (map) Negeri Perak
Taman Negara National Park (wild) Kept totally 4 elephants	, 2 present (1,1)	4 births	2 relocated	0 deaths	Kuala Tahan
Ulu Terengganu Forest Reserve (wild) Kept totally 4 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	4 relocated	0 deaths	Terengganu
Zainal Abidin III of Terengganu (private) Kept totally 5 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	4 relocated	1 deaths	Terengganu

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