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Wildlife officers capture rogue elephant in Malaysia
Feb 19, 2012, 3:19 GMT
Kuala Lumpur - Officers captured a male elephant believed to be the leader of a herd that wreaked havoc on farmlands in a northern Malaysian state, the wildlife department said Sunday.
The elephant, weighing at least 4,000 kilograms, was captured Thursday in a village of Kelantan state, about 335 kilometres north of Kuala Lumpur.
It was believed to have led a herd of nine elephants that strayed from a nearby forest reserve and destroyed farm crops during recent months.
Wildlife officers were seeking to capture the remaining elephants and return them to the jungle.
Eleaid, a British charity group working for the conservation and welfare of Asian elephants, estimated that there are nearly 1,500 wild elephants in the forests of mainland Malaysia.
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