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KUALA LUMPUR: There are fewer than 150 of the highly endangered Malayan tigers left in the country, says Energy and Natural Resources Minister Datuk Seri Takiyuddin Hassan.
WWF-Malaysia would like to clarify our stance on recent news reports that ‘logging is good for tigers’.
As a research-based organisation, we believe in learning and understanding conservation science and its methods.
Our study published in 2009 entitled The importance of selectively logged forests for tiger Panthera tigris conservation: a population density estimate in Peninsular Malaysia by D. Mark Rayan and Shariff Wan Mohamad was done to obtain information on density of tigers specifically in selectively logged forests.
It is important to note that the study refers to selective logging, not indiscriminate logging. Selective logging is a forestry practice that only cuts a select number of trees annually in a forest compartment instead of the whole forest at once, in line with Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) practices.
The 2009 study found a density estimate of 2.59 adult tigers per 100 sq km. This indicates that selectively logged for
JANUARY 15 It took a decade but finally, the Wildlife Conservation Act 2010 got a much-needed update late last year when Dewan Negara passed the amendment bill. It was a decade in which Malaysia experienced significant wildlife losses, witnessed huge seizures, the persistent rise of online.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Peninsular Malaysia Forestry Department (JPSM) has been instructed to immediately identify high-risk areas prone to natural disasters in the peninsula.