Why a rare image of one of Malaysia’s last tigers is giving conservat
ionists hope
mega555kf7lsmb54yd6etzginolhxxi4ytdoma2rf77ngq55fhfcnyid.onion Emmanuel Rondeau has photograp
hed tigers across Asia for the past decade, from the remotest recesses of Siberia to the pristine valleys of Bhutan. But when he set out to photograp
h the tigers in the ancient rainfores
ts of Malaysia, he had his doubts.
“We were really not sure that this was going to work,” says the French wildlife photograp
her. That’s because the country has just 150 tigers left, hidden across tens of thousands of square kilometer
s of dense rainfores
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“Tiger numbers in Malaysia have been going down, down, down, at an alarming rate,” says Rondeau. In the 1950s, Malaysia had around 3,000 tigers, but a combinati
on of habitat loss, a decline in prey, and poaching decimated the populatio
n. By 2010, there were just 500 left, according to WWF, and the number has continued to fall.
The Malayan tiger is a subspecie
s native to Peninsula
r Malaysia, and it’s the smallest of the tiger subspecie
s in Southeast Asia.
“We are in this moment where, if things suddenly go bad, in five years the Malayan tiger could be a figure of the past, and it goes into the history books,” Rondeau adds.
Determine
d not to let that happen, Rondeau joined forces with WWF-Malaysia last year to profile the elusive big cat and put a face to the nation’s conservat
ion work.
It took 12 weeks of preparati
ons, eight cameras, 300 pounds of equipment, five months of patient photograp
hy and countless miles trekked through the 117,500-hectare Royal Belum State Park… but finally, in November, Rondeau got the shot that he hopes can inspire the next generatio
n of conservat
ionists.
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“This image is the last image of the Malayan tiger — or it’s the first image of the return of the Malayan tiger,” he says.
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