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Stripped for parts: Vietnamese poachers target last of Malaysia’s wild tigers

Through interviews with more than four dozen people involved in the operations, including poachers and those who brokered sales of the illicit goods, researchers found that fishing boats were able to carry larger consignments, cheaper and less likely to be checked by customs than land or air routes.

“To really crack a problem and insert the right intervention that’s going to have any impact you have to understand the thing inside out,” said Panthera’s Rob Pickles, the lead author of the study, in a phone interview from Kuala Lumpur.

“That’s what we hope that this study does – contribute to that depth of understanding of the problem to allow us to tailor the interventions.”

In addition to poaching, tigers have lost much of their habitat to deforestation, and they have been falling victim in recent years to the canine distemper virus while a major source of food, the wild boar, has been decimated by the African swine fever virus.

“It’s their last gasp,” Pickles said. “This is the last chance to turn things around.”

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