PETALING JAYA: Malaysia has emerged as one of the countries most implicated in the illegal gibbon trade this year, as trafficking of the endangered primates reaches record levels across South and Southeast Asia.
An analysis by TRAFFIC, the global advisor on the trade in wild species, revealed that more than 336 individual gibbons were confiscated between January 2016 and August 2025, with seizures this year alone already accounting for 20% of the total.
