522 EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



This district lies in the Ulu Tanum and its tributaries . . . the mouth of 

 the Tanum being about fifteen miles up-stream from Kuala Lipis, the 

 capital of the State of Pahang. 



The following additional information on the recent status of the 

 Seladang is also given by Hubback (1932, vol. 2) : 



Careful conservation during the last five or six years in the Gunong Tahan 

 Game Reserve [in Pahang, Trengganu, and Kelantan] has saved the seladang 

 from what would, by this time, have been a dangerous decrease, and they are 

 gradually returning to old haunts which have not seen them for some years. 



The seladang in the Ulu Sat, which at times come into the Gunong Tahan 

 Game Reserve, at other times into the Ulu Spia, are I believe on the in- 

 crease. When one gets across to the west side of the reserve, the few remaining 

 head of seladang and rhinoceros which were left after years of poaching are 

 beginning to benefit from conservation and are also on the increase. The 

 seladang in the Ulu Tanum had been reduced to three head in 1924. (P. 139.) 



The Serting Game Reserve in Negri Sembilan, which was created in October, 

 1923, was rescinded in September, 1929, which enabled part of the area . . . 

 to be alienated immediately for rubber cultivation. 



Sungei Lui Game Reserve in Pahang, created in June, 1925, whose southern 

 boundary marched with the northern boundary of the Serting Game Reserve, 

 was also rescinded in September, 1929. . . . 



A determined effort was made to revoke the Krau Game Reserve [in 

 Pahang], the most valuable Reserve for seladang in the whole of Malaya, 

 and a most important Sanctuary for all sorts of wild life, including Sakai. 

 Fortunately the Krau Game Reserve was saved .... The latest Reserve to 

 be established is the Sungkai Game Reserve in Perak, a small Reserve, which 

 is chiefly a Sanctuary for one of the last remaining herds of seladang in 

 Perak. (P. 195.) 



The seladang in the Serting Valley had been badly poached and the large 

 number of seladang there I have seen as many as thirty in one padang 

 had been reduced to about twelve head in 1923. The effect of the conservation 

 that had taken place for six years in the Serting Game Reserve had increased 

 those seladang to probably double that number. (P. 198.) 



The Sungkai Game Reserve [in Perak], which contains a small herd of 

 seladang, is only 4,460 acres in extent and is therefore small as a permanent 

 home for these seladang (p. 208). 



The seladang of Perak have nearly disappeared, and these seladang will 

 disappear too unless adequate steps are taken to protect them. I was informed 

 when we were sitting in Tapah that seladang poaching is not yet a forgotten 

 art, and when a stage has been reached whereby the seladang have been 

 reduced to two or three herds in a large state like Perak, then surely it is 

 time to make serious effort to prevent them disappearing altogether. (P. 209.) 



Page writes (1934, pp. 39-40) : 



"The rescission of the Serting Game Reserve in 1929 was the 

 death knell for the seladang in that portion of Negri Sembilan. 

 There are none elsewhere in Negri Sembilan in sufficient numbers 

 to enable them to breed or thrive. . . . 



"This animal is decreasing and . . . when the decrease reaches a 

 certain point it becomes geometrical decrease." 



F. N. Chasen remarks (in litt., May 5, 1937) that the Seladang 

 needs rigid protection if its numbers are to be maintained. 



