It’s not as if people in Malaysia lack for meat but some of them, unfortunately, have a taste for bushmeat. And so it happened that officials from the Wildlife and National Parks Department (Perhilitan) in Sabah discovered a sack inside a polystyrene box. Inside were 4.6kg of deer meat, 2.3kg…
A lot of wildlife trafficking in Malaysia takes place in the laissez-faire milieu of the cyber world, where traffickers have taken to hugely popular social media platforms like Facebook to buy and sell protected and endangered species in wanton abandon. Yet if Fakhrul Hatta Musa, deputy director of Wildlife and National Parks Department…
Two more are down – wildlife traffickers, that is. Coming hard on the heels of the arrest of several traders of exotic animals across Malaysia, Wildlife and National Parks Department (Perhilitan) officers nabbed another two traders whose illegal activities they had been tracking online. One of the men was arrested…
Monkeys, foxes, squirrels, wild boars, snakes. These animals make for quite a menagerie of wildlife. You may not want to see them in your backyard, though. Yet all these animals are showing up near the houses of people living in the Klang Valley in the larger Kuala Lumpur area. And…