LETTER | Clearing forests for palm oil or any other agricultural crop is unacceptable and must stop.

LETTER | What was previously thought as a safe refuge for elephants also appears to be a supplier to ghastly zoos.

It is with disappointment that we read Pierre Bois d’Enghien’s summary ( ‘Malaysia is green and growing’ , The Star , Jan 22) of the Malaysian forest situation as published in the Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) 2015 report.

Orangutan's future still in limbo.

While imported pandas are given VIP treatment daily at Zoo Negara, Katarina, an orangutan who spends her days in squalid and deplorable conditions, is given quite the opposite treatment at the Kuala Lipis Zoo in Pahang.

In January last year, a senior veterinarian from the Sabah Wildlife Department announced that the Lok Kawi Wildlife Park zoo would be improved in a ‘master plan’ involving RM500,000 which would be spent in the same year, with the state cabinet’s approval. The same vet also admitted the zoo was bleeding massive amounts of money, several million yearly to be exact.

At a time when orangutans and other animals here need more help than ever, the plan to take on loan two pandas from China is surely one of the worst decisions ever made with regards to wildlife conservation and management in our country.