Sarawak to make pangolins a totally protected species


State Deputy Natural Resources and Urban Development Minister Datuk Len Talif Salleh speaking in the Sarawak Legislative Assembly on Monday (Dec 1).

KUCHING: Sarawak plans to upgrade the pangolin's status to a totally protected animal under the state's Wildlife Protection Ordinance.

State Deputy Natural Resources and Urban Development Minister Datuk Len Talif Salleh said the Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC) was in the process of finalising amendments to the Ordinance for the upgrading.

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