An injured Borneo Pygmy elephant was located and rescued by a team of conservationists who had been using satellite tracking methods to monitor the elephant.

The elephant had been shot in its right foreleg. The injury is thought to be the result of a human-elephant conflict. The habitat of the Borneo Pygmy elephants is highly fragemented and they often stray from the small Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary onto private lands where they cause damage to crops and villages.

Conservationists tranquilized the injured elephant and treated it with antibioitics to fight off infection.

Find out more: Satellite Tracking Leads to Treatment of Injured Borneo Pygmy Elephant (WWF)