Keratan Akhbar Pilihan With A Price Of Up To Rm800 000 The Malayan Tiger Is Prime Bounty For Poachers
Kuala Lumpur, 23rd October 2019 - Foreign poachers are setting up camps in jungles in Peninsular Malaysia to hunt protected animals due to the high price offered by illegal traders of wildlife parts.
A Malayan Tiger carcass can fetch between RM500,000 and RM800,000 and with that kind of money involved, foreign poachers are prepared to camp in the jungles for up to three months and use whatever means to kill the endangered animals.
Thousands of snares have been planted in our jungles and the authorities are concerned that the situation may fall beyond rehabilitation if intense and constant enforcement action is not undertaken.
Three foreigners were held for such activities last year while seven have been arrested this year.
“We have two issues to address – the poacher and the snares,” federal police internal security and public order deputy director DCP Datuk Mastor Mohd Ariff said yesterday.
Dato' Mastor said police and the Department of Wildlife and National Parks launched an operation called Ops Bersepadu Khazanah on Sept 9 to curb poaching.
Together with the police elite jungle tracking unit, Senoi Praaq of the General Operations Force, teams were dispatched to the jungles.
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