Teeing-off Python: A curious Snake drops by a Golf Tournament in KL

Teeing-off Python: A curious Snake drops by a Golf Tournament in KL

A Malaysian python made headlines worldwide … by disrupting a major golf tournament. A six-foot-long python was spotted slithering across the green at the Klang Valley resort in Kuala Lumpur before the juvenile reptile was safely removed so the tournament could resume uninterrupted. The animal was then released unharmed at…

New Survey to Reveal the Fate of the Malayan Tiger

New Survey to Reveal the Fate of the Malayan Tiger

Malaysia’s Department of Wildlife and National Parks (Perhilitan) recently approved a survey of the country’s tiger population.  Six times more thorough than the last such estimate, this survey will reveal the Malayan tiger’s true chances of survival. Covering 20,000 square kilometers (20 plots of 1,000 sq km each), the proposed…

Four Baby Orangutans Give Hope to Wildlife Protection in Malaysia

Four Baby Orangutans Give Hope to Wildlife Protection in Malaysia

For the first time ever, four baby orangutans were born in close succession at the Tabin Wildlife Reserve in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo.  The achievement is a proud one for the orangutan conservation effort, but these four baby orangutans give hope to more than their species. Baby orangutans Spike, Camelia, Daniel…

Sarawak Raids 240 Companies Linked to Illegal Logging in Malaysia

Sarawak Raids 240 Companies Linked to Illegal Logging in Malaysia

A recent sizing-up of illegal logging in Malaysia revealed that the Forest Department of Sarawak conducted 240 raids, confiscated 12,000 cubic meters of timber and submitted a total of 122 investigation papers to the state government as of July this year. Much of this legal action has to do with…

Malaysia Scrambles to Save the Sumatran Rhinoceros

Malaysia Scrambles to Save the Sumatran Rhinoceros

The Malaysian state of Sabah is pulling out all the stops in its campaign to save the Sumatran rhinoceros from extinction. According to human knowledge, there are only a handful of Sumatran rhinoceros left in the world.  The announcement that wild Sumatran rhinos are extinct in Malaysia has already been…

Malaysian Government Uses Social Media to Crack Down on Illegal Wildlife Trade

Malaysian Government Uses Social Media to Crack Down on Illegal Wildlife Trade

Four men were recently arrested – and the two juvenile Orangutans they were trying to sell were saved – thanks to a social media program the Malaysian Government is using to ambush wildlife traders. Code-named Ops Taring III, the social media crackdown is showing promise. In March, seven other wildlife traffickers were caught. They…