Perhilitan defends raids on gibbon centre, stresses no warrant needed

The Wildlife and National Parks Department (Perhilitan) has come forward to explain and defend its raids on Gibbon Rehabilitation Project (Grep) centre in Raub, Pahang, in which six gibbons were confiscated from Dec 29 to 31, 2020.

Perhilitan, in a statement today, claimed that the Wildlife Conservation Act 2010 allows it to carry out the raid without first securing a warrant...