Ever-growing towns and cities and palm oil plantations pose threat to elephants' habitats in Malaysia's Sabah state.
The trouble with pygmy elephants is that they live in remote places.
Places so remote you don't get 3G on your mobile phone. Sometimes, you don't even get a mobile phone signal at all.
I’m being precocious, of course.
The fact that you sometimes can get a mobile phone signal shows just how developed Malaysia's northeastern Sabah state has become.
And it's the encroachment of that development that most threatens the wildlife.
So the real trouble with elephants is that their remote places are no longer remote enough.
This isn't new.
Decades ago logging companies chopped down the forests; then rubber plantations – and the infrastructure they needed - were the problem.
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