Endangered Danger Malayan Tiger

Conservationists believe that a key to saving the world s wild tigers from extinction is to put an end to poaching of tigers. Reports by martin carvalho hemananthani sivanandam rahimy rahim and tarrence tan kuala lumpur.

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Malayan tigers are poached due to the high demand for products made from tiger parts.

Endangered danger malayan tiger. The continental tigers currently include the bengal malayan indochinese and amur siberian tiger populations while the caspian tiger is extinct in the wild. These are popularly known as sumatran tigers. This happens simply because of the greediness of some and the ignorance of others.

This act addresses many. This has caused the dwindling of the already small malayan tiger population in the country. Recently our malayan tigers have been classified as critically endangered species under the iucn red list with less than 200 left in the wild today.

As per 2013 survey there are only about 250 340 of these tigers left. Malayan tiger critically endangered in the last seven years alone the population of malayan tigers has decreased by 25. The critically endangered malayan tiger will go extinct if no drastic action is taken to address its decline in population says dr xavier jayakumar.

Because of a growing demand in china for durian a smelly and controversial. The habitat of the malayan tiger one of the world s most endangered tigers is being threatened by a strange fruit. The malayan tiger is a critically endangered tiger subspecies that lives only in the tropical rainforests of malaysia.

The malayan tiger is now classified as a critically endangered species under the iucn red list and is totally protected under malaysia s wildlife conservation act 2010. To achieve that more police need to be trained to catch the hunters and take them to court. Animal poaching and illegal tradings are the other two reasons why tigers are endangered in malaysia and across the globe.

It faces an extremely high chance of extinction in the wild. Its meat was said to be nutritious. It was reported last month that the price of a malayan tiger could fetch up to rm1 million each.

In addition the selling and trading of products made from endangered species on the black market should be better controlled. All remaining island tigers are found only in sumatra with tigers in java and bali now extinct. Building a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.

To give it its scientific name it is pantheris tigris ssp. Back in the 1950s malayan tigers used to be in 3000s. In china there are establishments known as tiger.

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