If Malaysia’s beleaguered tigers have something to fear more than poaching, it’s habitat loss. The majestic predators have seen their numbers drop precipitously over the past decades in tandem with the loss of the country’s forests and jungles. Once there were thousands of tigers roaming vast swathes of jungle. Today, a mere 340 tigers (at most)…
The images are graphic and their contents are certain to upset any animal lover. The photos, allegedly taken in Pahang and widely shared on social media by outraged Malaysians, show several young men posing with the body of a dead tiger. In one of the images a man is seen…
Some of us like to run. Some of us like to run even more if it’s for a good cause. And what better cause for running than the cause of saving Malaysia’s wild tigers? Come August 14, you can do just that by joining the Wild Tiger Charity Run 2016…
Ceaseless habitat loss and relentless poaching driving tigers into extinction. Sound familiar? It should. This time, though, it has happened in Cambodia. Once tigers roamed much of the nearby Southeast Asian nation. Now they’re all gone – or, as biologists put it, “functionally extinct” with no breeding populations left in…
The fictional 19th century pirate Sandokan, created in 1883 by Emilio Salgari, an Italian author of exotic action-adventure swashbucklers, would go on to become a character beloved by generations of Europeans thanks to a series of movies and television series that featured the Bornean prince turned pirate cum anti-colonialist warrior…