Kota Kinabalu: Tigers are considered an endangered species in Malaysia as their population has dropped from some 3,000 in the 1950s during the colonial era before Merdeka to about 150 to date after more than 60 years of independence.

This was revealed by WWF’s Christopher Wong in his presentation “CA/TS (Conservation Assured Tiger Standard) and Better Management in Royal Belum State Park” concerning tiger conservation programme in Peninsular Malaysia at the recent WWF-Malaysia 50th Anniversary Conference Nov 2 – 3, 2022, here.

With the National Tiger Conservation Action Plan in place in the peninsula, the danger of tigers in Malaysia going extinct is more unlikely now, unlike the extinction of the rhinoceros in Sabah, he said.