If there is one thing that most countries of the world have in common, it is their treatment of animals; it's cruel. In a series of incidents of elephants being killed around the world, another one comes from Malaysia.?
Borneo pygmy elephants are an endangered species and the body of a male elephant was found riddled by 70 bullets, according to post mortem report. It was killed by poachers for its tusks.?
The elephant was discovered by farmers, floating in a river in Sabah, a region of Malaysia. The corpse was tied to a tree.?
Reportedly experts cannot say for certain? how much the poor creature?suffered, but a bullet that went through its temple would have killed it instantly. A viral video shows the moment the elephant was taken out of water.?
Sabah Wildlife Department director Augustine Tuuga reportedly said - and we agree - that the death was nothing but cruel.?
Authorities had to employ heavy machinery in order to pull out the body of the elephant and that’s when it was found that the tusks had been sawed off.?
Here is the thing - there are only about 1,500 pygmy elephants left in the wild and the species is completely protected under Malaysian law. Anyone?found guilty of killing one can be jailed for five years or slapped with a $60,000 fine.?
If there was strictness about the killing of these endangered creatures, this elephant would not have died in the first place.?