The Malayan tiger (Panthera tigris malayensis), which is the national symbol, is on the verge of extinction, with only some 150 surviving in the wild in the peninsula from Johor to Perak.
World Wide Fund for Nature Malaysia (WWF-Malaysia) conservation director Dr Henry Chan said efforts are being made to save the animal, whose population in the 1980s and 1990s was between 500 and 1,000 but fell to between 250 and 340 in 2013.
Malayan Tiger Now in Danger
“A survey we conducted from 2016 to 2020 with the Wildlife and National Parks Department shows that the Malayan tiger population is critically low.”
He said in 2022, the government initiated programmes to breed the Malayan tiger by using natural and advanced reproductive technologies to raise its numbers to at least 400 within the next 10 years.
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