...on the last Tuesday of every month!
Over the last 100 years, the tiger has lost 93% of its habitat, and we have lost 97% of tigers.
There is only an estimated 3,200 tigers left on the planet today compared with the 100,000 a century ago. Of the 9 tiger sub-species, 3 are already extinct - the Balinese, Javan and Caspian.
In Malaysia, our tigers have declined by 83% since 1950. Come and hear what we're doing to stop this!
Talk & Q&A by MyCAT
February 26th
8 till Late
about MyCAT
the biggest killer (click for link)
species close to home
The Malayan Tiger, Panthera tigris jacksoni, has declined in numbers by over 83% since 1950. There are an estimated 500 tigers with 90% of these living in the four ‘tiger states’ of Pahang, Perak, Kelantan and Terengganu. Although the tiger is listed as a “totally protected species” under the Protection of Wild Life Act 1972 which makes it illegal to kill or possess body parts of a tiger, the fragile population is still under the threat.
The Sumateran sub-species, Panthera tigris sumatrae, is the last of Indonesia’s tigers. Some estimates show numbers of less than 400 holding on for survival in the remaining patches of forests.
The Indochinese sub-species, Panthera tigris corbetti, can be found in Thailand, Cambodia, China, Lao, PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam. This region contains the largest combined area of tiger habitat in the world. However, rapid development and rampant poaching has left many of the landscapes of this region with no tigers left in them.
MYCAT is an alliance of the Malaysian Nature Society, TRAFFIC Southeast Asia, Wildlife Conservation Society-Malaysia Programme and WWF-Malaysia, supported by the Department of Wildlife and National Parks Peninsular Malaysia for joint implementation of the National Tiger Conservation Action Plan for Malaysia.
Their goal is to provide a formal yet flexible platform for information exchange, collaboration and resource consolidation among conservation organisations united by the shared vision of achieving thriving wild tiger populations in Malaysia.
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