We’ve got some happy news from Malaysia to help celebrate the Year of the Bat! We’re very pleased to announce that the state government of Terengganu in Peninsular Malaysia has just agreed to protect flying foxes!
Under Peninsular Malaysia’s Wildlife Conservation Act 2010, flying foxes can be legally hunted by applying for a licence from the Department of Wildlife and National Parks. A group of concerned independent researchers who go by the name Rimba submitted a proposal and met with the state executive councillor in charge of environmental affairs, to lobby for a moratorium on flying fox hunting in the state. And the state government said yes!
Read the news report and related feature articles here:
‘Terengganu bans hunting of flying fox’
