Perhilitan – Page 2

Heads up folks! This is the first ever fieldwork update from the Kenyir Wildlife Corridor Project and we’re very excited to report that the Kenyir forests are alive and well!

We’ve just completed 4-km transects at more than 30 access points along the Kuala Berang highway. This highway cuts through three contiguous production forest reserves consisting mainly of lowland and hill dipterocarp forests. Our project site lies within a globally important Tiger Conservation Landscape, one of three priority areas according to the National Tiger Action Plan for Malaysia¹, and is also identified as Primary Linkage 7 in the Central Forest Spine (CFS) Master Plan for Ecological Linkages². So you can see why it’s important that we assess impacts of highway viaducts in this landscape.

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April 8, 2011August 9, 2017 by Rimba Categories: Home, Project, Project UpdatesTags: Asian elephant, Asian tapir, barking deer, camera-trap, Central Forest Spine, CFS Master Plan for Ecological Linkages, civet, conservation, cream-coloured giant squirrel, Department of Town and Country Planning, golden cat, HC500, highway, Kenyir Wildlife Corridor, leaf monkey, leopard, leopard cat, macaque, Malayan tiger, mammal, National Tiger Action Plan for Malaysia, occupancy, Paul Henry, Peninsular Malaysia, Perhilitan, Primary Linkage 7, Reconyx, sambar deer, sun bear, Trailcampro, viaduct, wild pig 5 Comments

Rimba would like to give a special shout-out to the Terengganu State Department of Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP or its Malay acronym PERHILITAN) for conducting a successful raid that netted Vietnamese and Cambodian poachers plundering Tembat Forest Reserve, one of the research sites in the Kenyir Wildlife Corridor Project. The poachers were caught red-handed with pangolin meat and scales.

DWNP trailed the poachers for 70 km from Sungai Ketiar Elephant Sanctuary, after the poachers were initially spotted leaving the forest reserve by car. The fact that these foreigners were able to easily access the forest using a vehicle is yet another example of how roads can facilitate entry for illegal hunting and collection of forest produce.

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March 27, 2011April 29, 2017 by Rimba Categories: Home, Project, Project UpdatesTags: agarwood, Asian elephant, CITES, elephant, gaharu, illegal hunting, Kenyir Wildlife Corridor, Malaysia, pangolin, Perhilitan, poacher, sandalwood, Sungai Ketiar, Tembat, Terengganu, The Star, Wildlife Crime Hotline

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Project update 3: Kenyir forests are alive and about to be camera trapped!

Project update 2: Kudos to Wildlife Department for nabbing pangolin hunters