"Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry"
–William Blake–
THE MALAYAN TIGER
The Ninth Tiger
The tigers of Malaysia were only considered a separate and distinct sub-species in 2004, making the Malayan Tiger the ninth sub-species of tiger.
Numbering around 3,000 fifty years ago, there are fewer than 500 wild tigers in the country today. Tiger numbers will decline so long as the loss of habitat and poaching are not stemmed immediately.
Like the fate of tigers around the world, the future of the Malayan Tiger is just as bleak.
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Updated January 26, 2011
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