RAUB: An operation to remove two gibbons from a private rehabilitation facility here turned into a prolonged and heated affair between wildlife officials and an NGO.
The two juvenile gibbons were purchased early last month by undercover policemen in a joint operation with environmental NGO Peka (Pertubuhan Pelindung Khazanah Alam Malaysia) to smash a local wildlife-trafficking syndicate.
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