Thank you to each and every one of you, who cared enough to take action for a living planet! You have helped to make the following conservation successes possible.
How Your Support Helps: Success Stories
Your Support Helped Make These Successes Possible
Studied Via Satellite
Three hawksbill turtles, regular visitors to Malaysian waters, set out from Malacca recently fitted with satellite transmitters.
Hatching Hawksbills
One does not usually associate historical Malacca with marine turtles. It is one of the best kept secrets that Malacca’s sandy coastline is the home to the largest population of hawksbill turtles in Peninsular Malaysia.
One Planet, One Person
Gandhi once said, “You must be the change you want to see in the world”. Conservation is everyone’s business: not only the concern of a selected individual or an elected body. It’s a matter that concerns every one of us.
More Success Stories!
Protected kinabatangan
Since the late 1980s, WWF-Malaysia has been presenting recommendations to the State Government of Sabah to legally gazette the Kinabatangan as a protected area. After all these years working towards protecting it, we are happy to announce that 26,103.29 hectares of the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary (LKWS) has finally been re-gazetted under Section 9 of the Wildlife Conservation Enactment 1997!
Tiger Puzzle Solved
Camera traps are a common conservation tool used to monitor animals without intruding into their daily lives. Before selecting a location to set up the camera traps, a ground survey must first be conducted to ensure there are actually tigers located within the vicinity, as confirmed by secondary signs such as pug marks and claw marks.
Improving Patrols of Protected Areas
The presence of wildlife wardens deters poaching. Sabah’s natural environment will soon have the added protection from 39 honorary wildlife wardens, comprising selected volunteers from the oil palm plantations, local youths and WWF-Malaysia staff.
Heart of Borneo
At the official launch of the “Heart of Borneo” in Brazil attended by representatives from all three Borneo governments, new conservation measures were announced. Malaysia declared it will protect more than 200,000 hectares of key forest habitat in Sabah for the protection of orang-utans, elephants and rhinos;
Seal of Approval
The Heart of Borneo was confirmed at the 39th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM) in Kuala Lumpur, 25 July 2006, underlining the support of three governments for this significant conservation initiative, putting it well on the path to success.
First Wild Tiger Video Clip
It was just three seconds, but the video-clip of the elusive Malayan tiger caught on tape was an exciting event for wildlife conservationists. WWF-Malaysia caught the image via a video trap installed in the forests of Jeli, Kelantan, a human-tiger conflict hotspot.
A Rhino Rendezvous
For WWF-Malaysia staff, it was a happy moment as the image of the rare rhinoceros emerged from one of our motion-triggered camera traps. We had set up the camera with the Sabah Wildlife Department in the rainforests of Borneo as part of our rhino conservation efforts, which include the “Rhino Rescue” project, generously funded by Honda Malaysia.
Wild Colour Display
A new venomous snake that can change colour has been discovered in the “Heart of Borneo”, a 220,000 sq km mountainous region covered with rainforest.
Helping Keep Water Fresh
Concerned with palm oil effluent being discharged into Sabah rivers, WWF-Malaysia made recommendations to the Sabah Chief Minister that the water catchments management plan be realised via the formation of a Sabah Water Resources Council.
Saved by Satellite
The tracking system set-up by Sabah Wildlife Department (SWD) and WWF-Malaysia (Asian Rhinoceros and Elephant Action Strategy...
