Bornean elephants are purportedly the smallest elephants ... Many might consider them cute, and they’re certainly iconic. The Tangled Worlds crew travelled to Malaysia to film their story.

Celebrations over a newly classified elephant subspecies were cut short in June 2024, when concerns were raised over the number of Bornean elephants — also known as the Borneo pygmy elephant ...

Dr Nurzhafarina Othman said the Bornean elephant was classified as such under the updated International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species on Wednesday (June 26).

Now, there are only 1,000 Bornean elephants left in the wild-but there’s hope for them yet. Recently, the Bornean elephant has made it onto the International Union for the Conservation of Nature ...