Kelantan deputy chief minister Nik Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah defended the director by citing a WWF-Malaysia study from 2009. WWF-Malaysia then responded to Kelantan with a public post as well as a letter on their website. They clarified that tigers benefited only in a selectively logged part of a forest that also adhered to sustainable management, and not indiscriminate logging. Ultimately, they concluded that “pristine, undisturbed forests are the ideal habitat for tigers.
The terrible side-effect of only reading the short and snappy headlines is that you miss the full picture and will ultimately be misinformed, just like the Kelantan deputy chief minister. If you just listen to what he says, you might believe logging is good for tigers. If you just skim through WWF’s response, you might think selective logging is good for tigers, but if you read the whole scientific paper and different journals, you will notice that it’s more complicated than it seems.
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