A motorcycle repair shop that doubles as a den of wildlife trafficking. That’s what Malaysian wildlife officials, acting on a tip, discovered in Jitra, a town in Kedah. They arrested a 22-year-old mechanic, who had been keeping and selling several species of protected birds. The illegally kept birds found on…
Orangutan skulls. Langur skulls. Macaque skulls. Monkey skull necklaces. Hornbill beaks. Sun bear claws. Bear teeth. Wild boar tusks…. These were among the gruesome “decorative” items that two Malaysian men who ran an online business called Borneo Artifact kept mailing from the island into the United States for a decade….
Long snout. Darting, sticky tongue. Black-button eyes. Scaly armor. Formidable claws. Tapering tail. Pangolins look like some alien species of mammalian warriors dreamed up by a cartoonist with an overactive imagination for a Japanese Manga Comics series. Yet for all their scales and claws, pangolins are gentle, inquisitive creatures that…
The Year of the Monkey is just about to kick off according to the Chinese calendar so we might as well make the coming year one in which we pay a lot more heed to the wellbeing of monkeys and other wildlife. That is the message of Ang Lai Soon,…
Three down, plenty more to go. In three separate raids in Selangor, Johor and Perak within the space of little over a week, Wildlife and National Parks Department officials nabbed as many gangs of animal traffickers. They also seized two live mouse deer, 468 magpies, and 1,480 weaverbirds. Acting on…