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Malaysian wildlife doomed to extinction?

admin December 28, 2015 0 Comments

The continuous emergence of wildlife news in the media warrants serious attention from the government and the relevant authorities. Malaysian wildlife faces a desperate fight for survival into the future and without urgent intervention, many of our country’s endangered species will soon be wiped out. They are being driven to extinction by many factors including habitat loss, hunting and...

Who are the killers – Sharks or people?

admin November 2, 2015 0 Comments

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) is both shocked and disappointed at Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry Minister, Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek’s outright refusal for a nationwide law on shark hunting and finning and dismissing it as an industry in the country. The minister could be either ill-informed or is not aware that shark populations are under serious threat and now require total...

SAM: The Hidden Side of Factory Farming of Food Animals

admin February 12, 2015 0 Comments

Meat consumption has grown sharply along with the rising prosperity of developing countries. As a result of this, large-scale livestock farming is now widespread throughout the region. However, an increasing number of people are becoming concerned with the conditions the animals are raised and how they are being treated. The ideal form of animal farming is free-range, where the animals are...

Freedom from the Battery

admin April 10, 2014 0 Comments

If you’ve never seen an ex-battery hen take her first steps on soil, or feel the sunshine on her face for the first time – then this might be five of the most moving minutes you’ll ever see. Battery cages had not only prevented these hens from expressing normal and natural behaviours – but they denied them of any quality of life.

Deaths of pygmy elephants still unsolved

admin May 27, 2013 0 Comments

Several months have passed and Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) is still wondering who or what is responsible for the untimely deaths of the 14 pygmy elephants which died between December last year and January this year in a forest reserve in central Sabah. It is hard to fathom why it has taken so long for the analysis to be revealed and only after several letters to editors from readers, came the...

Murder of zoo animals cruel

admin March 6, 2013 0 Comments

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) views the killing of a Malayan sun bear and an Arabian stallion in Malacca Zoo as malicious and vicious. Taking the lives of innocent defenseless animals is a vile and dastardly act. This is not the first time revenge is taken on captive wildlife. In 2007, the Langkawi Underwater World lost 600 fish worth thousands of ringgit in a mysterious death believed to...

Sentence for animal poachers too lenient

admin March 5, 2013 0 Comments

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) is enraged and highly perturbed to learn of the light sentences meted out over the country's biggest seizure of illegally trafficked tiger. The court’s ruling concerning wildlife can have wide reaching impacts for the precedent it sets will not be a deterrent to others as this could lead to additional killing of other endangered wildlife which the Act is intended...

Severely punish culprits for carnage of Pygmy elephants

admin January 30, 2013 0 Comments

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) views the death of 10 pygmy elephants at the Gunung Rara Forest Reserve as the worst disaster to have happened in 2013. Nothing is more poignant than the sight of an elephant calf tugging at its dead mother - a heart wrenching sight that is certain to tug at the heartstrings of even the most hard-hearted person. SAM condemns the killing of the innocent defenseless...

Deployment of armed guards crucial to combat wildlife poaching

admin August 23, 2012 0 Comments

Frequent reports of seizures of pangolins, snakes and tortoises bound for export out of the country is alarming. The wildlife trade has become even more rampant with the illegal sale of wildlife through the internet. Unregulated, anonymous and virtually unlimited in reach, it offers endless opportunities to a flourishing trade in protected wildlife. Malaysian wildlife species are seriously at...

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