Category: Animal Rights EN

4th  October is World Animal Day and it is a time to pay heed to the suffering of animals.  Many animals endured pain and suffering when abused, neglect or cruelly treated by humans.  It can be the causing of harm or suffering for specific achievement, such as killing animals for food, for their fur or even their tusks and body parts and  cruelty associated  with a given method of...

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) is heartened to learn of the Government’s commitment to battle poaching by increasing manpower through a special battalion assigned to aid the Wildlife Department in the patrol of the country’s jungles. The number of wild tigers estimated to be left is only about 250. This is alarming.  All efforts in the past are not working to save the tigers.  At best they...

There have been several incidents recently which have highlighted a disturbing trend of individuals keeping wildlife as pets. The first incident highlighted in the media was a Sun Bear which a Malaysian singer had initially mistaken for a dog. Within the same week was a case of a Brahminy Kite which had been held captive for a year in a corner lot of a terraced house. It was a total...

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) expresses shock at the recent deaths of three elephants at a plantation area of a village in Kampung Sri Timur 3, Kluang, Johor. They were believed to have been poisoned.  Their deaths paint a dismal picture for the future of our elephants. With oil palm plantations encroaching from all sides into elephant habitats, along with logging and agriculture activities, this...

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) refers to the upcoming elephant sanctuary in Kota Tinggi, Johor known as the Kampung Panti Elephant Sanctuary and another proposed sanctuary to be built in Hulu Perak. These two elephant sanctuaries are intended to address the human-elephant conflict (HEC) in those areas but SAM is doubtful that sanctuaries are the best option to resolve the human-elephant conflict and...

More action and less talk is required to combat wildlife crime. Several species are becoming severely depleted and may disappear if more is not urgently done by Governments. High value seizures of contraband ivory, rhino horn, tiger parts and pangolin scales dominate media headlines every week. Many live animals are traded with impunity - tigers, orangutans, pangolins, monkeys, birds, etc etc. ...

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) is disheartened to learn that the culture of eating dogs and cats has caught on in Malaysia with Vietnamese nationals selling dog and cat meat in Selangor and Johor Bahru.   The trend has even caught up with a group of Indonesian men in Shah Alam killing a stray dog with a parang after which they then cooked his meat to eat. The publication of video footage of...

In conjunction with Earth Day April  22nd this year, Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) would like to highlight the fact that at least one-fifth of mammal species found in Malaysia is facing extinction.  That is according to a data provided by the World Bank in 2015, which revealed that in 2014 as many as 70 species out of 336 mammals were in danger.  This special classification ranks Malaysia...

The  media report on the seizure of live baby crocodiles at Sibu airport is not a new incident.  A similar incident occurred in May 2018 in which an illegal shipment of 50 live crocodiles from Malaysia were seized by border officers at Heathrow Airport. The shocking truth is the manner in which the year old juvenile saltwater crocodiles were transported.  These reptiles weighing around 40kgs,...

Our tigers, the acme of power and grace, are in dire straits! It’s unthinkable that our tigers’ footprints are vanishing from our Malaysian soil. Ecologists and tiger conservation groups keep sounding the alarm bell for our tigers, yet is anything being done to address the causes of the animal’s  decline?   Causes of the tiger’s decline are depressingly familiar. The culprits are the...