Showing posts with label wildlife-trade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wildlife-trade. Show all posts

Malaysia: Two men nabbed, over 600 turtle eggs seized

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Goh Pei Pei New Straits Times 8 Sep 19; KUCHING: The Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC) enforcement team nabbed two men for selling sea t...

Malaysia: Elephants losing its tusks to live

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Roy Goh New Straits Times 5 Sep 19; KOTA KINABALU: Elephants in Sabah are evolving to lose their tusks to survive, a phenomenon that is a...

Malaysia: Rare Bornean banteng falling victim to traps

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KRISTY INUS The Star 5 Sep 19; KOTA KINABALU: The banteng, the wild cattle of Borneo, are not just being poached but increasingly turning...

Malaysia: Illegal wildlife trade rampant here

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STEPHEN THEN, MUGUNTAN VANAR and MEI MEI CHU The Star 4 Sep 19; PETALING JAYA: From urban centres to deep jungles, the illegal wildlife t...

Man tries to smuggle 2 hedgehogs through Woodlands Checkpoint

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Channel NewsAsia 3 Sep 19; SINGAPORE: Two live hedgehogs were found hidden in a Singapore-registered car at the Woodlands Checkpoint by I...

Malaysia: Sarawak Forestry rescues protected parrots from China 'fortune tellers', lodges police report

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The Star 2 Sep 19; MIRI: Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC) has lodged a police report against a group of fortune tellers from China who ...

Malaysia: Kelantan Customs seizes 4,000kg of Thai-bound wild boar carcasses

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Sharifah Mahsinah Abdullah New Straits Times 29 Aug 19; TUMPAT: Kelantan Customs Department today foiled an attempt to smuggle 4,000kg of...

Malaysia: Poachers target Helmeted Hornbill

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EDDIE CHUA The Star 30 Aug 19; PETALING JAYA: The critically endangered Helmeted Hornbill is facing a grave threat from poachers who are ...

2 turtles rescued by Acres make their way home to Malaysia

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TESSA OH Today Online 27 Aug 19; SINGAPORE — A small crowd gathered at Jalan Lekar on Tuesday (Aug 27) for a heartwarming send-off, as tu...

Malaysia: Special anti-poaching squad to protect forests of Sabah

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Forests Datuk Mashor Mohd Jaini (inset) said the squad would focus on anti-poaching operations from Sept 1. NSTP Roy Goh New Straits Times ...

Malaysia: Kelantan marine police foil smuggling of 90 palm civets, 14 tortoises

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Sharifah Mahsinah Abdullah New Straits Times 26 Aug 19; PASIR PUTIH: Marine police foiled an attempt to smuggle 90 palm civets and 14 tor...

Malaysia: Sale of white-rumped shama bird going overboard, laws needed to protect the songbird

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The Star 21 Aug 19; PETALING JAYA: The international trade of South-East Asia's most popular songbird, the white-rumped shama, has le...

Malaysia: Over 400 wild animals seized in Sibu

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Goh Pei Pei New Straits Times 21 Aug 19; SIBU: The Sarawak Forestry Corporation seized more than 400 wild animals which included protecte...

Malaysia: All out to save the sun bear

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MEI MEI CHU The Star 20 Aug 19; PETALING JAYA: As alarm bells ring with Malaysia’s Sumatran rhino population plummeting to a single survi...

Two tigers seized from traffickers every week, report finds

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Closure of tiger farms among urgent steps needed to protect species, wildlife summit hears Damian Carrington The Guardian 21 Aug 19; Two...

Commentary: Singapore’s ivory trade ban tackles elephant in room but work ahead a mammoth task

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Singapore’s ivory ban is a win for conservation but we must double down on wider conservation efforts, says WWF-Singapore’s Kim Stengert. K...

Malaysia: Nearly 300 poaching traps found in Johor

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MOHD FARHAAN SHAH The Star 15 Aug 19; JOHOR BARU: A total of 298 wire snares and 23 illegal camps set by poachers to trap animals, especi...

Indonesia: Police thwart alleged attempt to smuggle thousands of turtle eggs

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The Jakarta Post 15 Aug 19; Semparuk Police in Sambas regency, West Kalimantan, confiscated 1,340 turtle eggs allegedly being smuggled by...

Indonesia: Only 18 Bondol eagles left in Seribu Islands

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Antara 18 Aug 19; Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Jakarta Animal Aid Network (JAAN) said that based on the 2014 data, the population of Bondol eag...

Singapore to ban domestic trade in elephant ivory from September 2021

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Malavika Menon Straits Times 12 Aug 19; SINGAPORE - Singapore will ban the domestic trade of elephant ivory from Sept 1, 2021, the Nation...