In 2019, Malaysian conservationist Mark Rayan Darmaraj warned that the critically endangered Malayan tiger would be extinct by about this year if efforts to save it were not intensified. But while the ...

A Malaysian court has fined two Vietnamese men $390,000 for illegal possession of leopard, bear and boar parts. The fine of MYR1.56 million is the highest fine ever levied for poaching in Malaysian ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A Vietnamese man pleaded guilty in a Malaysian court on Friday to possessing protected wildlife parts without a license, his lawyer said. Hoang Van Thai, 39, was charged with ...

Conservationists say that prosecuting wildlife traffickers in Malaysia for trading in protected species isn’t easy, as traders have several loopholes to aid their efforts. One wildlife trafficker ...

Dr. William Schaedla, the director of the wildlife-trade monitoring group TRAFFIC Southeast Asia, told mongabay.com that “the new law represents the first major revamp of the national wildlife law in ...

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 5th August 2010—Malaysia’s Parliament this week passed the country’s tough new Wildlife Conservation Bill 2010 which provides significantly higher penalties and mandatory jail ...

Fewer than 150 Malayan tigers remain in the wild. That’s why 2,500 volunteers from 38 countries have joined a boots-on-the-ground initiative to protect them Braving bloodsucking leeches and the ...

Wildlife trafficking is thought to be the most profitable illicit trade in the world, after drugs, weapons and human trafficking. In Malaysia, the local media often display images of seized pangolins, ...

Rescued: A file photo showing a gibbon seized in Chennai, India, from a passenger arriving from Kuala Lumpur. — Photo from Chennai Customs’ X account PETALING JAYA: Border authorities at the ...

Malaysia's Wildlife Department has defended its use of puppies as live bait to capture black panthers spotted at a Malaysian village. An animal rights groups protested the method and appealed to the ...