By TUNKU SHAHARIAH
GEORGE TOWN: The state government’s proposed Tiger Park project has attracted a litany of criticisms with the latest questioning the project’s safety aspects and blueprint.
Penang Gerakan treasurer Ng Fook On said the people’s safety was of paramount importance and placing wild animals especially tigers in densely-populated residential areas was inviting danger.
“The state government should not risk the lives of the people just because it wanted to impress them that it could implement an eco-tourism project.
“Tigers should be allowed to remain in their natural habitats to roam freely,” he said in a statement yesterday.
Ng was commenting on the proposal by Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng to create the Tiger Park on a 40ha plot owned by the Penang Municipal Council known as the Pondok Durian Cap Kaki in Relau.
Lim had defended his idea saying people, especially children, were generally interested in big animals due to the ‘wow’ factor.
Ng said he was sceptical as the “idea of the park seemed to have appeared out of the blue.”
“Is there a blueprint? Is it a private-driven initiative or state project? What about the safety aspects?” he asked. The Malaysian Conservation Alliance for Tigers (Mycat), Sahabat Alam Malaysia and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-Malaysia) had also objected to the proposal.
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