Perhilitan lauded for busting syndicate

KUALA LUMPUR: Wildlife trade monitoring network Traffic has given its thumbs up to the Department of Wildlife and National Parks (Perhilitan) for crippling the wildlife poaching syndicate in Kelantan.

Traffic South-East Asia senior pro­­gramme manager Kanitha Krish­­na­samy said the case highlighted how the threat of poaching and illegal wildlife trade should be viewed with a great degree of se­­riousness by all government agencies concerned with national security.