2,000-plus wildlife killed on the roads due to deforestation

Some 2,055 wildlife ended up dead as roadkill from 2015 to 2019, driven partly by deforestation, according to the Department of Wildlife and National Parks (Perhilitan).

This is due to forest fragmentation, where forest complexes are deforested, severing ecological linkages which these wildlife use to move from one complex to the other.

Perhilitan estimates that in Perak, only 130 elephants and 50 tigers are left in the wild, partially due to forest fragmentation...