Brothers charged over wildlife offences

SEPANG: Two brothers were each charged in the Sessions Court here with eight counts of keeping protected wildlife and species without permits.

Muhammad Ibrahim Fikri Abdullah Sani, 29, and his brother Muhammad Umar Firdaus, 20, were accused of keeping one Malayan sun bear, a common palm civet, a leopard cat, a Malayan porcupine, two Sunda flying lemurs and 24 barn owls.