THE past few months recorded a high number of Malayan tapirs tragically dying after being hit by vehicles.
Just between January of this year and mid- April, 12 tapirs died from road accidents. The decade from 2009 to 2019 saw 102 tapir roadkill deaths. With tapir populations in Peninsular Malaysia estimated to range between 1,100 and 1,500, every single tapir death is a great loss.
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