In the good old days, according to my dad, people, especially villagers and the plantation folk, feared us, the Malayan tiger, the most. Being a Malayan tiger, we are celebrated; we have legendary aura as king of the Malayan rain forest; we decorate the nation’s coat of arms, and the national football team use us as their name and symbol. At the Global Tiger Summit in 2010, tiger range countries including Malaysia committed to doubling their tiger numbers by 2022. The government has come up with a plan – the National Tiger Conservation Action Plan (NTCAP) – to save my species and the larger ecosystem via the Central Forest Spine Master Plan. I know some of you have contributed, but the funding is inadequate to make real changes in augmenting tiger and biodiversity conservation.

Source: The Star May 22, 2021 00:56 UTC