A new bilingual children s picture book tells the story of dusky langurs thestar.com.my - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thestar.com.my Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
PETALING JAYA: There were 220 complaints received by the Wildlife and National Parks Department (Perhilitan) from the public on dusky langurs last year, resulting in one person's death and two others wounded.
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Commentary: Malaysians in lockdown coo over pictures of returning wildlife – but there’s more than meets the eye With new lockdowns and closure of international borders, wildlife has been an increasingly common sight in Malaysia’s urban areas, says Siew Lyn Wong.
Composite pictures of a sighted tapir in February and a sighted elephant in January in schools in Malaysia. (Photos: Bernama)
Without tourists, wildlife of Langkawi in Malaysia makes a comeback asiaone.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from asiaone.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Thomas Bird 2 February 2021
You don t have to travel far before the hotels of Malaysia s honeymoon island are supplanted with the colourful low-rise farmhouses of the verdant interior. This is rural Langkawi at its most bucolic; the domain of swamp buffalo gently grazing in company of their faithful companions, the cattle egret. Heading north-west, the lowlands give way to the jagged ridges of Machinchang Cambrian Geoforest Park, a 500-million-year-old product of geological activity now carpeted by lush rainforest. A colugo leapt from the tree canopy, sailing over our heads like a kitten strapped to a kite
Some of the holiday island s elite properties are sandwiched between this rainforest and the north coast. Though these resorts are usually only open to guests, my guide, French primatologist and passionate conservationist Priscillia Miard, has forged relationships with the resident naturalists and we were granted access to wander through the grounds of Th