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The pre-eminent threats to the Asian elephant today are habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation, which are driven by an expanding human population, and lead in turn to increasing conflicts between humans and elephants when elephants eat or trample crops. Hundreds of people and elephants are killed annually as a result of such conflicts.
The only truly wild horses in existence today are Przewalski's horse native to the steppes of central Asia.. A modern wild horse population (janghali ghura) is found in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park and Biosphere reserve of Assam, in north-east India, and is a herd of about 79 horses descended from animals that escaped army camps during World War II.
Borneo has own a wide variety of bird species. The geological history of Borneo is a major factor: long isolation of the island, broken during the last Ice age, when Borneo was connected to the continent of Asia, led to a combination of Asian and native species. There are about 420 species of birds and 37 are endemic to Borneo [4] [5]
Rafflesia, largest flower in the world is endemic to Borneo. Borneo island, made up of three countries which are Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak), Brunei (Sultanate) and Indonesia (Kalimantan), is the third largest island in the world. Borneo island is a region that is rich in biodiversity. It consists of 15,000 plant species, and more than 1,400 ...
There are approximately 415,000 African elephants left in the world. The World Wildlife Foundation said that, in 2016, experts estimated their population had fallen by 111,000 over the course of a ...
The critically endangered Bornean orangutan, a great ape endemic to Borneo, in Tanjung Puting Borneo elephant. The wildlife of this ecoregion consists of a large number of forest animals ranging from the world's smallest squirrel, the least pygmy squirrel, to the largest land mammal in Asia, the Asian elephant.
In Assam, more than 1,150 humans and 370 elephants died as a result of human-elephant conflict between 1980 and 2003. [96] In a 2010 study, it was estimated that in India alone, over 400 people were killed by elephants each year, and 0.8 to 1 million hectares were damaged, affecting at least 500,000 families across the country.
Animals such as the Asian elephant have been forced out of their habitat due to its loss, often leading them to starve. [5] Once so common that complaints existed of them trampling people's gardens, [1] Sumatran rhinoceroses became extinct in Malaysia in 2019. [5] [22] Hornbills are steadily declining in numbers. [23]