Conservationists are on a desperate mission to save them.
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It has recently emerged that anyone with RM3 can buy a government licence that enables them to go to a pet shop and purchase a snake, turtle, parrot and countless other wild animals, even though they have no previous experience of caring for the species or knowledge of suitable habitat in which to keep them. How stupid is that?
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The confiscation this week from four Indian nationals, of over 1,000 tortoises (not turtles) further illustrates what Nature Alert and Malaysian Friends of the Animals have been saying for many years - namely, there is a rampant illegal trade in tortoises in Malaysia that has gone unimpeded by law-enforcement.
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It is very worrying that a sanctuary for the orang utan, elephants and other wildlife in Borneo was allegedly set on fire by poachers recently.
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