Malaysian police seize smuggled bear parts, owls
Category: conservation, poaching, sun bear in the wild, threats | Date: Sep 16 2009 | By: Siew Te Wong
Malaysian police seize smuggled bear parts, owls
| 9/13/2009, 11:21 p.m. EDT The Associated Press |
(AP) — KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian police say they have seized more than $100,000 worth of dead owls, bear paws and live monitor lizards and arrested two men on suspicion of trying to smuggle them abroad.
Mohamad Hassan Hashim, a marine police official in eastern Terengganu state, says two Malaysian men were caught Sunday loading the protected wildlife into a boat.
He says police found 33 sun bear parts, 264 dead owls and 4,800 live monitor lizards, worth some 350,000 ringgit ($100,300) in all. The lizards will be released into the wild.
<!– if (parseFloat(navigator.appVersion) == 0) { document.write(”); } –>Mohamad Hassan said Monday the men could face up to three years in prison if charged with and found guilty of possessing protected wild animals.
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One Response to “Malaysian police seize smuggled bear parts, owls”
Siew Te Wong, on 16 Sep 2009
This is the 4th illegal wildlife parts seizures in Peninsula Malaysia over the past 10 month with very similar species of wildlife: owls, sun bears, and live monitor lizards. Whatever have been done to stop poaching and illegal wildlife trafficking in this country over the past year has completely failed. This new seizure indicated that there is no deterrence of the wildlife poachers and traffickers on the existing wildlife laws which was set up to protect wildlife-Wildlife Protection Act 1972, in this country. Something new and effective has to be done soon to stop this kind of killing, if we were to save our wildlife resources.
Read more about the poaching news:
http://sunbears.wildlifedirect.org/2008/11/18/900-oven-ready-owls-7000-live-lizards-seized-in-asia/
http://sunbears.wildlifedirect.org/category/poaching/
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