Category: Uncategorized | Date: Dec 27 2008 | By: Siew Te Wong

I hope all of you have a wonderful Christmas spending quality time with your family and friends. As I am about to wonder what would be the topic of my next blog, I found another disturbing news from Malaysia: another sun bear was poached, cut into pieces, and the wildlife authority nailed the poacher. It is truly sad every time I come across this kind of news. Please read my blogs about poaching activities in Malaysia to learn more about the desperate issue. In addition, please help us sign a petition that design to help to reduce poaching in this country.

 As I said over and over again, I strongly believe that every successful raid of a poaching case represent a staggering number of poaching cases that no one know. We need to act now to stop this kind of killing. Poaching and consuming of game meat is not a Malaysian culture and the poaching of wildlife is absolutely not necessary and should be stop before it went out of control. Please help us to stop wildlife being killed for no reason and please help us to stop sun bear being poached for whatever reason. I really hope BSBCC can do more to educate the public about sun bear so to reduce this kind of killing of sun bear can keep in minimum if not complete stopped. I hope one day we will never hear of any sun bear being poached in this country because local people knows more about them and start to protect them, and not because of there are no sun bear in this country anymore!   

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http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/12/25/nation/2891783&sec=nation

Thursday December 25, 2008

Caught with bear meat in fridge

By HAH FOONG LIAN

IPOH: A rubber tapper has been detained for allegedly poaching an endangered Malayan sun bear in the wild for his own consumption.

The 56-year-old tapper, who has a wild boar trading permit for the past three years, was arrested following a tip-off to the Selangor Wildlife and National Parks Department.

Grisly find: Shabrina and Perak Wildlife and National Parks Department officer Sufian Ahmad (left) checking the carcass of the sun bear at the department’s office in Ipoh yesterday.

Perak Wildlife and National Parks Department director Shabrina Shariff said her officers raided the rubber tapper’s home at Jalan Ketoyong in Tanjung Malim at 11am on Tuesday after receiving information from her Selangor counterpart.

“We found the head and four limbs of the protected animal in a refrigerator.

“There was also 15kg of the animal meat stored in a plastic bag in the freezer,” she said at her office here yesterday.

She added that pellet marks from a shotgun could be seen on the animal’s head.

Shabrina said she believed that the Malayan sun bear was an adult animal weighing some 95kg but its sex could not be determined because all its organs were removed.

The suspect, she said, had told her officers that he had poached the endangered sun bear for his own consumption.

Explaining that the sun bear was a protected animal, Shabrina added that the general belief was that the sun bear was used as an aphrodisiac for men and that its meat fetched some RM200 per kg.

She said her officers had lodged a police report and the suspect would be prosecuted under the Wildlife Protection Act 1972/76.

The case would be mentioned in court next year, she added.