Volunteers have been cleaning up the beaches of Miri, Sarawak, several times this year. - DAPHNE JOLLY/The Star
At a tiger conservation workshop earlier this year, I heard a lot of doom and gloom expressed by the speakers, field researchers, learned academics and experienced biologists.
The negativity is not new as many are disheartened by the on-going assault on our wildlife and environment fuelled by what appears to be limitless human greed.
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