The bushmeat trade in Sabah is an acute problem, posing as it does an grave threat to the continued survival of endangered species in the wild. Poachers around the state’s forests carry on killing protected animals just so that someone can eat them. Encouragingly, however, local authorities are aware of…

It’s not as if people in Malaysia lack for meat but some of them, unfortunately, have a taste for bushmeat. And so it happened that officials from the Wildlife and National Parks Department (Perhilitan) in Sabah discovered a sack inside a polystyrene box. Inside were 4.6kg of deer meat, 2.3kg…

Wild animals face a variety of threats in Sabah from habitat loss to poaching. Sadly, we also need to add the thriving local bushmeat trade to that list. Local conservationists and animal lovers have been engaged in several educational campaigns to try and wean locals off the meat of wild…

Many locals in Sabah seem to view the state’s forests as their own backyards: the animals that inhabit those woods, these people apparently believe, are simply there for the taking – through the barrels of hunting rifles. Reportedly, the bushmeat trade in the state continues to flourish despite a ban…