...the wildlife and national parks department (Perhilitan) did not simply kill orangutans, tigers and lions, and had a policy of “making the animals faint” before taking them to the zoo.
The question for Malaysians, not just the governments, is do WE WANT TO PROTECT OUR FORESTS or do we just log and extract all that can be sold, and use it for the people IRRESPECTIVE of issues like 'flooding', extinction of the protected species like tigers, helmeted horn bills, etc and also plant species, impact to environment, climate change, etc. CHOOSE NOW MY FELLOW MALAYSIANS.
Do you know that some State Governments grant logging licenses for an area of forest, just small enough - to avoid mandatory Environmental Impact Assessment(EIAs)? Thus logging without the need for any EIA >>> and often we hear how concerned government and politicians are of the environment....
ENDANGERED SPECIES - having laws criminalizing hunting, and/or marketing such species or parts is really not effective. If an endangered species is found to living in that area, then we should change government policy of PROTECTING THE HABITAT.
When logging and 'other development' encroach into the habitat, then animals, even endangered species are forced to move...their natural food sources are affected. So, we find these animals 'forced' to closer to human settlements - hence news that tiger killed Orang Asli, ended up shot dead...or other animals like elephants encroaching people's farms happens..
MINISTERS like Zuraida says '...had a policy of “making the animals faint” before taking them to the zoo...' so, the government policy and to them animals out of the forest/natural habitat and put them in ZOOs. Watch also the VDO in FMT
Malaysia is proposing the adoption of a Kuala Lumpur Joint Statement on Tiger Conservation to help the tiger population recover in habitats within South-East Asia, says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.He said the 13-point joint statement would support the implementation of actions within the South-East Asia Tiger Recovery Action Plan (STRAP) based on agreed priorities.
After the death of the tiger, Malaysia is pushing on South-East Asia Tiger Recovery Action Plan (STRAP) - BUT REALLY statements or declarations with real reform of laws and action locally. Change the low - no logging or development in a land which is HABITAT of some endangered species. Laws about how to deal with other species - relocations? 'made to sleep and send to zoos? The law need to be clear..
PM Ismail Sabri must also have a comprehensive briefing for Cabinet on environment and wildlife - when a Minister says or makes comments as recently happens, it is simply most embarrassing to all of us in Malaysia. There is a whole lobby against Malaysian Palm Oil, and Ministers like Zuraida really do not help...
See earlier post:-
Helmeted Hornbill and critically endangered species - protect the habitat - Law & Policy Reforms Needed?
Forest reserve being degazetted to prevent bush fires, says Selangor MB?
Deforestation and whether it made Pahang floods worse in 2021? Federal Government to compensate States for stopping logging activities?
Logging forest reserves - STOP IT - Environmental Impact? Water Cathchment? Endangered Species?
JKKK
- denies or 'steal' peoples' rights to be consulted and involved before
development, logging, etc decisions made? Let us elect our local
leaders
In Kelantan, tiger shot dead after mauling Orang Asli to death
.jpg "A Malayan tiger is seen at Zoo Negara, Kuala Lumpur November 22, 2020. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa")
GUA MUSANG, Jan 7 — An Orang Asli man was mauled to death by a tiger in an incident at Kampung Sau near Pos Bihai, here this morning.
Gua Musang district police chief Supt Sik Choon Foo said the victim was identified as Anek Bin Along, 59.
Police received information on the incident at 1.30pm from the Kelantan Department of Wildlife and National Parks (Perhilitan), he said, adding that the attack was later confirmed by the Orang Asli Development Department (Jakoa).
A Perhilitan team that pursued the tiger some three hours later killed the beast after it tried to attack them.
Sik said based on information received, at 9.10am, the victim had stepped out to the back of his house to urinate while his daughter was also somewhere nearby tending to some chores.
“His daughter suddenly realised her father was nowhere to be seen and after a search in the area found bloodstains on leaves nearby.
“The daughter then sought help from villagers who after a search in the area saw a tiger lingering nearby the victim’s body,” he said in a statement today.
Sik said the villagers then hurled spears at the tiger, one of which hit the beast before it fled the area.
A team from the Gua Musang police station arrived at the scene at 5.40pm to remove the body before sending it to the Gua Musang hospital.
Meanwhile, Kelantan Perhilitan director Mohamad Hafid Rohani when contacted said the male tiger weighing about 120 kilogrammes was shot at about 12.15pm while the Perhilitan team was looking for it in a jungle near the scene of the incident.
He said the team was forced to shoot the animal after it began a run towards them.
“This decision (to open fire) is also in line with section 52 of the
Wildlife Conservation Act 2010 as the animal was a danger to human
life,” he said. — Bernama, Malay Mail, 7/1/2022
Environmentalist shocked by Zuraida’s ‘bizarre, ignorant’ orangutan claim
FMT Reporters
- January 20, 2022 12:15 PM
Andrew Sebastian says he is appalled by Zuraida Kamaruddin’s lack of knowledge on wildlife conservation and the environment. PETALING JAYA: An environmentalist has expressed shock over plantation industries and commodities minister Zuraida Kamaruddin’s “bizarre and ignorant” claim that orangutans kill people when they see them.
Ecotourism and Conservation Society of Malaysia (Ecomy) president Andrew Sebastian said he was appalled by Zuraida’s lack of knowledge and that her claim did a disservice both to the environment and the palm oil industry.
Zuraida was reported to have said at the Malaysian Palm Oil Council’s 2022 seminar and dialogue on Jan 5 that Malaysia still had many orangutans, contrary to the notion that the palm oil industry was killing the primates.
“In Malaysia, if you see an orangutan, it will kill you first, not you kill the orangutan first, correct?” the minister said during her speech.
She said the wildlife and national parks department (Perhilitan) did not simply kill orangutans, tigers and lions, and had a policy of “making the animals faint” before taking them to the zoo.
Andrew, who pointed out that lions were not found in the wild in Malaysia, said Zuraida’s claim that orangutans sought to attack animals they came across was wrong.
“It is really bizarre and ignorant,” he said.
He also said Zuraida had failed to acknowledge the well-documented drop in the orangutan population.
“From 1973, it was estimated that there were 288,500 orangutans in Borneo and by 2025, it is estimated to drop to 47,000 only.
“And that’s why in 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed the orangutan as critically endangered,” he told FMT.
Andrew also said Perhilitan did not operate in Sabah and Sarawak, where orangutans were found.
So, he said, Zuraida’s remarks did little to help the palm oil industry in its efforts to fight criticisms of the industry’s effects on the primates. - FMT, 20/1/2022
Malaysia proposes adoption of 13-point KL joint statement for tiger population recovery in South-East Asia
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Friday, 21 Jan 2022
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is proposing the adoption of a Kuala Lumpur Joint Statement on Tiger Conservation to help the tiger population recover in habitats within South-East Asia, says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.
He said the 13-point joint statement would support the implementation of actions within the South-East Asia Tiger Recovery Action Plan (STRAP) based on agreed priorities.
"The adoption of the Kuala Lumpur Joint Statement, STRAP and Resource Mobilisation Strategy will provide Tiger Range Countries a means to set realistic actionable targets in their bid to achieve tiger recovery goals,” he said at the Fourth Asia Ministerial Conference (AMC4) on Tiger Conservation held virtually on Friday (Jan 21).
Ismail Sabri also called on Tiger Range Countries and partners to work together in the spirit of a "world family" to save the species as the loss of tigers knows no geographical, cultural and political boundaries.
Meanwhile, a Financial Resource Mobilisation Assessment would be further discussed by member countries as it would include financing plans which South-East Asian countries may use when implementing tiger conservation efforts, he said.
Ismail Sabri said as tiger conservation was costly to execute, it was crucial for resource mobilisation and sustainable financial mechanisms to be put in place to ensure effective implementation.
He said the federal government had introduced the Ecological Fiscal Transfer for Biodiversity Conservation (EFT) to incentivise state governments to protect and expand tiger habitats, with a total of RM130mil having been disbursed to state governments through EFT since 2019.
"On the international front, Malaysia takes its commitment to tiger conservation and biodiversity conservation seriously.
"We are proud to be a party to an extensive list of biodiversity-related multi-lateral conventions, including the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES),” he said.
Malaysia is also collaborating with various international agencies including the Asean Working Group on CITES and Wildlife Enforcement (AWG CITES & WE) and the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) to combat illegal wildlife trade.
The Prime Minister said the population of tigers had plunged to fewer than 4,000 worldwide and this figure includes the critically endangered Malayan tiger, a symbol of Malaysia’s strength and resilience which adorns its national Coat of Arms, or Jata Negara.
Based on the First National Tiger Survey conducted from 2016 to 2020, he said, fewer than 150 Malayan tigers were left in the wild, while experts predict that the species will vanish within five to 10 years if strategic actions were not put in place immediately.
"Therefore, the Malayan tiger has been afforded the highest level of protection in our legislation - Totally Protected Species under the Wildlife Conservation Act 2010 and Appendix 1 under the International Trade in Endangered Species Act 2008,” he said.
Other successful tiger conservation initiatives include the award-winning Operasi Bersepadu Khazanah (OBK), as well as the Biodiversity Protection and Patrolling Programme (BP3), in which 167 wildlife criminals were arrested for smuggling goods worth RM36mil under those two programmes.
Besides
that, Ismail Sabri said the Greening Malaysia Agenda through the 100
Million Trees Planting Campaign from 2021 to 2025 was successful, as
approximately 26.21 million trees from 993 species have been planted
under this programme as of January 2022. - Bernama, Star 21/1/2022
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