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 ...

A rare tarantula species is being driven toward extinction by the illegal exotic pet trade, the Center for Biological ...

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 ...

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 12th January 2011—A man who put two ivory statues for sale online will be the first person charged under Malaysia’s tough new wildlife laws. A man accused of online ivory ...

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 ...

Kenyir Wildlife Corridor in northeast Malaysia is teeming with wildlife: elephants, gibbons, tigers, tapirs, and even black panthers (melanistic leopards) have been recorded in the 60 kilometer (37 ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (eTN) – Malaysia’s new tourism minister, Azlina Othman, is wasting no time to spell out her new vision for Malaysia’s tourism industry. To her, the future is in ecotourism.

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, ...

The Malayan tiger, tapir and sun bear are not easy to spot in Malaysia except in some zoos or sanctuaries. (Malaysia Traveller pic) There are a lot of good websites about Malaysian Wildlife on the ...

Ignorance is no longer an excuse for wildlife criminals, with awareness signboards on wildlife crime penalties built around Gerik town, near Malaysia's Belum-Temengor Forest Complex. Ignorance is no ...

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