Pahang Regent: We will gazette new reserves to protect tigers

Pahang state will create a new nature reserve as part of Malaysia's efforts to protect the endangered Malayan tiger, the Regent of Pahang, Tengku Hassanal Ibrahim Alam Shah Al-Sultan Abdullah, said.

Pahang will this month gazette a new 1,340 square kilometres state park in the Gunung Aais and Tekai Tembeling forest reserves and an additional 400 square kilometres of the area would be added soon to boost wildlife conservation efforts, he said in a speech at a conference in southern India yesterday...