10/07/2024

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HOT TOPICS | Wildlife crime must receive a strong signal, for the Planet

Long jail term for Malaysian ex-police officer caught with Critically Endangered Pangolins Almost six years after he was caught for illegal possession of 81 pangolins, a former police officer has been sentenced to one of the longest jail terms Malaysia has meted out for a crime involving the world’s most trafficked mammal, reports TRAFFIC.  Datuk Abdul Kadir Abu Hashim, director General of the Department of Wildlife and National Parks Peninsular Malaysia (PERHILITAN), the agency responsible for Sharwandy’s arrest and successful...