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MALAYSIA TIGER

The Malaysia Tiger can still be found throughout Peninsular Malaysia and locally known as Harimau. Today, there are at least 490 remaining - mainly in rain-forest area of Kelantan, Terengganu, Perak, and Pahang.

The tigers, each with its individual stripes are like finger prints and they have night vision of six times better than that of humans. Coupled with their short heavily muscled forelegs and long, sharp, retractable claws, this makes them good hunters.

The tigers instinctively avoid human beings and will only attack people if they are provoked, injured or unable to hunt for their usual food.

 About Malaysia Tiger

Earlier, there were more than 3000 tigers living within their unhurted habital in Peninsular Malaysia. Today the number has shown a major declining whereby only 490 remaining. The peak of industrial development within Malaysia, the raping of rain forest area for its valuable timbers and other natural resources by humans, contribute to the disaster of the peaceful life of this animal habitat. New land for residential, commercial and plantation purposes are also among the factors. The fact that, this lovely animal is also been hunted for use in traditional Asian medicine. Tiger bones, believed to contain high medicinal properties, are popular on the black market in Asia.

Tigers are predominately solitary creatures except for maternal bonding and during mating. They occupy exclusive territories that they defend against intruders of the same sex by marking with urine and scrapes at boundaries.

Project for Tiger Conservation in Malaysia.

The Tigers Alive! by WWF Malaysia, project focuses on inter-related components within the Belum-Temengor-Gunung Basor landscape. The components include reducing human-tiger conflict and raising awareness through educational programmes in Jeli, Kelantan, addressing tiger landscape connectivity as well as monitoring of tigers and their prey. Each component forms an important part of a broader approach to addressing tiger conservation in Malaysia. - From WWF Malaysia Folder.

Save Tigers for Future Generation - Let donate to WWF Malaysia :

http://wwf.org.my/how_you_can_help/donate_main/save_tigers/

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