PETALING JAYA: A conservation group is urging wildlife authorities to focus on increasing prey species for the tigers in the wild, especially in the Endau Rompin region which has seen an escalation of cattle predation by tigers.
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Malaysia Programme country director Dr Mark Rayan Darmaraj said there was a fear that the African swine fever (ASF) had continued to decimate the population of wild pigs and could even cause a localised extinction of the animals.
He said WCS Malaysia, which is in collaboration with the government to monitor tigers in the Endau-Rompin area in Johor, had failed to capture any images of wild pigs on camera traps in recent months.
“There are also reports that tracks of the animals have not been seen in the forest,” said Darmaraj in an interview in conjunction with World Tiger Day on July 29.
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