New Straits Times 27 Feb 10;
IPOH: The Wildlife Protection and National Parks Department said that nine Orang Asli were expected to be charged soon for allegedly poaching and killing a tiger in the Bukit Tapah Forest Reserve in Sungkai, near Bidor, on Feb 7.
The department's director for the state of Perak, Shabrina Shariff said statements had been taken from the nine and that the investigation papers would be handed over to the public prosecutor soon for further action.
The Orang Asli, aged between 20 and 40, two of them Rela members, were suspected of being involved in poaching protected animals using shotguns, traps, spears and blowpipes, Shabrina added. -- Bernama
