Poachers still targeting Sabah’s endangered wildlife


Ongoing efforts: Authorities detaining the suspects caught transporting carcasses of endangered wildlife in Pautan.

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah’s endangered wildlife continue to be the target of poachers as recent raids during the past week here have shown.

Sabah Wildlife Department rangers discovered three carcasses of bearded pigs and that of a mousedeer when they stopped a pickup truck along the Paitan-Kanibonganroad in northern Sabah on Saturday.

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