Bornean Sun Bear Conservation

Category: poaching, threats | Date: May 05 2009 | By: Siew Te Wong

In view of the recent incident where armed poachers lay siege of the forest office base, there has been many concerns and comments from the readers. Thank you all for your comments. You all raised appropriate concerns over the incident, both to the wildlife that loss their lives in these massacres, as well as the protectors of wildlife who almost loss their life on duty.

As the wildlife habitat shrinking as we speak due to human activities in these wild land, the value of each existing individual wildlife is even higher. Each and every single one of them is important to the survival of the population and later on the entire species. There are so many species of wildlife on Earth that has been whipped out in so many places on Earth. The extinction of a species will never be reversible. Borneo is the last stronghold of magnificent SE Asian’s wildlife. This island is considered as one of the last secure place for many wildlife species.

Yet, we as a dominant species on Earth, we destroyed their habitat in many ways in the name of modern development, wealth, demand to meet someone’s needs and greed. This kind of killing should not take place in the first place. But yet, it happened. We have to stop this act no matter what!

Here is what you can help to improve our wildlife protection in Malaysia:

1) Show supports to the staff of Sabah Forestry Department who injured in the line of duty. Write to the director of the forestry department at http://www.forest.sabah.gov.my/more/contact.asp to show your support and urge them to continue the protection of the forest and wildlife.

2) Sign the petition that was set up the at http://www.petitiononline.com/MYLaw/petition.html. The petition was set up last year and wishes to collect 100,000 signatures by June 2009. It seem impossible now because pathetically only 4849 signatures have been collected up until today. Anyway you can read more at sunbears.wildlifedirect.org/2008/10/25/we-need-your-help-to-protect-wildlife-in-malaysia/ and relevant posting on this blog.

3) Support conservation work in Sabah by supporting LEAP’s work at http://www.leapspiral.org/main.html. LEAP is an NGO base in Sabah that created BSBCC. Please visit their brand new website and learn more about our works! http://www.leapspiral.org/Thank you all for your supports!

Tags: poaching, wildlife