Malayan tiger - threats

Coming into conflict with people

Logging operations and development of roads pose a big threat to tiger habitat in the Taman Negara Landscape.

Moreover, conversion of forests to agriculture or commercial plantations has resulted in more frequent encounters between tigers and livestock. The cost for farmers can be high: for example, livestock loss due to tigers is estimated to have cost more than US$400,000 in the last decade in Terengganu, one of the poorest areas in Peninsular Malaysia.

In retaliation, tigers are often killed by authorities or angry villagers, or else captured and put in zoos. Tigers killed as “conflict” animals often end up sold on the black market, creating a link between human-tiger conflict and poaching.