Smuggling networks exploit migrant debt to fuel tiger poaching in Malaysia, study shows

Mongabay
Mar 31, 2025, 11:20 pm195 ptsTrendingTop
Fewer than 150 Malayan tigers remain in their home range of Peninsular Malaysia. Poaching to supply an illegal trade in their body parts is a major threat to the survival of this critically endangered subspecies of tiger, Panthera tigris jacksoni. A new study details a link between the trafficking of people and…

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