Hundreds upon hundreds of endangered animals perish on Malaysian roads each year. Thankfully, however, officials are doing something about it. In the works are more wildlife crossings in what is a welcome development. Such crossings alone, though, won’t solve the problem of animals ending up as roadkill while they try…
Within the space of just five years, between 2012 and 2017, officials have recorded a total of 2,444 road accidents involving wild animals belonging to 30 species. That means that there is at least one deadly road accident involving a wild animal every single day of the year. And that’s…
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…
A sad part of development in Malaysia is that it rarely if ever comes without environmental costs. And so it has proved with the East Coast Rail Line. Aware of the hazards the new rail link will pose to wildlife, environmentalists have been calling on policymakers to put the project on…
It can be absolute carnage out there on Malaysia’s roads and not just for people. Over the past five years a total of 1,914 protected wild animals have perished in road accidents, according to Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar, minister of Natural Resources and Environment. Does that sound like a lot?…