The 'Mek Blau' Malayan Tiger Rescue Operation From The Snare In Kelantan Involves 21 Officers

Illustration - Indian Tiger. (Wikimedia Commons/Ayush Baheti)

JAKARTA - The Malaysian Peninsular Environment Department managed to save a Malay tiger from a snare at the Blau Post, Musang Cave, Kelantan State last Friday. The female tiger weighing about 80 kilograms (kg) named Mek Blau was caught in a snare on its front left ankle. The operation to rescue a species named Latin Panthera tigris tigris, according to the Malaysian Peninsula Department in its social media accounts, involved 21 personnel from the National Wildlife Rescue Center (NWRC), the National Tiger Conservation Center (MTCC), and staff from the Ministry of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. The environmental department believes the snares were installed by illegal hunting gangs so as to violate the Articles of Conservation of Wildlife (Amendasi) 2022 (Article A1646). Part 29 (1) in the A1646 Market states “ no one can own, store, install, lay or use any snares except for the purpose of carrying out investigations or studies of wildlife life ”.

Furthermore, Section 29 (2) states “ anyone who violates sub-section (1) makes a mistake and can, once found guilty, be fined no less than fifty thousand Malaysian ringgit and no more than one hundred thousand ringgi and imprisoned for a period of no more than 10 years ”.