Forest officers arrest three poachers with sambar deer parts


Successful operation: Rozidan showing photographs of Perhilitan’s raid on poachers at the Aman Jaya Forest Reserve.

IPOH: Three hunters were caught with dissected parts of sambar deer – a protected species – in the Aman Jaya Forest Reserve, near KM69 of the East Coast Expressway in Grik.

State Wildlife and National Parks Department (Perhilitan) director Rozidan Mohd Yassin said the hunters, all from Kelantan, were caught while trying to load the deer parts into their four-wheel drive vehicle at about 3.45am yesterday.

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