I detest anyone who killed such beast for whatever good reasons they gave. Tiger population is already less than 500 in the entire peninsular Malaysia; and we want to preserve these otherwise extinct animals for our future generations, at least they would be able to know how a tiger looks like. Tigers rarely attack human beings unless they are confronted or hunted, snared or injured! We humans had encroached their territories, destroyed their habitat through development and broken their food chains. They are driven away and marginalized to live only in limited forest reserves land in the country.
I enjoy reading news that tigers could still be found in the Perak state in areas around Chenderiang, Bukit Tapah Sungkai, Botak Kiri or even near the forest of Kuala Dipang etc. Occasional sighting of such animals are not common; it might be easier to strike a lottery than to see a tiger nowadays. It always makes me feel very sad when tigers were normally killed whenever the sighting incident of such rare and precious animals was reported in the local newspapers.
The price of a dead tiger could fetch a price of USD20,000 and that is something too attractive for some to resist. Even the aborigines are hunting the tigers for money sake on the pretext of collecting "Petai" in the forest reserves and I am totally disgusted with such greedy act. Malaysia is a country that could earn a living easily and our aborigines should not be in that dire strait or poverty level , to the extent of depending on killing such precious wild beasts for a living.
We must protect our Malaysian tigers by whatever means and they are our pride!
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