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Smuggling networks exploit migrant debt to fuel tiger poaching in Malaysia, study shows

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Smuggling networks exploit migrant debt to fuel tiger poaching in Malaysia, study shows
(April 01, 2025) Fewer than 150 Malayan tigers remain in their home range of Peninsular Malaysia. Poaching to supply an illegal trade in their body parts is a major threat to the survival of this critically endangered subspecies of tiger, Panthera tigris jacksoni. A new study details a link between the trafficking of people and Malayan tiger parts: Vietnamese migrant workers in Malaysia, indebted to their employers, often turn to the illegal wildlife trade, while network managers and vessel captains use fishing ...

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