The Star 27 Mar 11;
KUALA TERENGGANU: Five foreign poachers allegedly hunting pangolins at the Marang Tembat Forest Reserve were detained following a raid by the Wildlife Department rangers.
The rangers also seized a bottle filled with pangolin meat and scales as well as 2kg of Gaharu wood.
The suspects, a Cambodian and four Vietnamese in their 30s, were spotted by two rangers when they were exiting the forest reserve in a car on Wednesday.
Department state director Yusoff Shariff said: “They discovered pangolin scales, pieces of timber as well as an axe and parang.
“The suspects' passports were also seized,” he told a press conference here yesterday.
