An endangered Malayan tapir was killed in a road accident, then it was presently skinned and dismembered by several men who decided to retrieve its body parts. Around the same time, over the Christmas holidays, an endangered Malayan sun bear, too, was run down and killed in a road accident….
Two sun bears and a Malayan tapir. Three endangered animals perished on Malaysian roads in as many days over the Christmas holidays. Time for a sigh of “not again!” Indeed. On December 22 a tapir was run down and killed on the Jalan Seremban-Kuala Pilah road. A group of men…
The sun bear was found, following a tip-off, in a poacher’s snare within the Maliau Basin Forest Conservation Area. Thanks to the Sabah Wildlife Department’s rescue unit, the injured bear was saved from what would have been certain death at the hands of unscrupulous people. According to the unit’s acting manager Dr…
Giant pandas – those cuddly mascots of wildlife conservation the world over. They are – drum rolls please! – endangered no more. They remain classified as “vulnerable,” though. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which on its Red List classifies a large variety of wild animals worldwide…
You don’t need to be Sherlock Holmes to figure this one out: a dead sun bear was found floating in the Kinabatangan River, in Sabah, with both its hind paws missing. The witnesses: two Swedish tourists on a river cruise. The likely culprits: wildlife traffickers who killed the bear for…