Protecting forests for Malayan Tigers

Protecting forests for Malayan Tigers

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)…

Poachers in Pahang may have just Killed a Tiger

Poachers in Pahang may have just Killed a Tiger

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…

Cambodia’s Tigers are Extinct. Will Malaysia be Next? Not if We Act

Cambodia’s Tigers are Extinct. Will Malaysia be Next? Not if We Act

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…