Conservation Officer at Malaysian Conservation Alliance For Tigers (MYCAT) - Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
Founded in 2003, MYCAT was established to address the multi-faceted challenges to tiger conservation in Malaysia and take an integrated conservation approach to finding solutions to the problems faced by the Malayan tiger. There are presently an estimated 250 to 340 Malayan tigers remaining in the wild. MYCAT is an alliance of the Malaysian Nature Society, TRAFFIC Southeast Asia, Wildlife Conservation Society-Malaysia Programme and WWF-Malaysia, supported by the Department of Wildlife and National Parks Peninsular Malaysia for joint implementation of the National Tiger Conservation Action Plan for Malaysia.Vision: A 22nd Century Malaysia in which viable populations of tigers thrive in the wild in perpetuity.Goal: The recovery of tiger populations through collaboration and cooperation.Objective: To provide a formal yet flexible platform for information exchange, collaboration and resource consolidation among conservation organisations united by the shared vision of achieving thriving wild tiger populations in Malaysia.