Malaysia battles tiger extinction – video news report
Malaysia battles tiger extinction – news video report from Al Jazeera English (28 Nov 2009) with Laura Kyle reporting from Malaysia to find out why poaching is rife and why efforts to stop it are failing.
Conservationists are warning tigers will become extinct in the wild within the next 20 years unless a major effort is made to protect them.
At the beginning of the last century, there were an estimated 100,000 tigers. Today, their population is believed to be around 3,000.
But poachers and illegal traders appear to be breaking laws protecting the big cats with more ease than policy makers and wildlife experts can uphold them.
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