Crypto-Cat-Fight Goes International

The New Straits Times has decided to step into the middle of the American crypto-cat-fight over the Malaysian melodrama. Here’s what they are saying…

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JOHOR BARU: Until researchers have determined the species and family of the Johor Bigfoot, its only completely safe haven is Johor. The Wildlife Department says scientific identification is a prerequisite for declaring it a totally protected species.

The State Government has announced total protection for Bigfoot. This means it is forbidden to injure, capture, kill or transport the animal out of the State.

Wildlife Department Biodiversity Conservation Division director Siti Hawa Yatim said it would be difficult to provide protection to an unknown creature.

“The footprints and sightings are not enough for us to act on. We have no way of providing protection for unknown animals under the Wildlife Protection Act.”

Siti Hawa said if there was sufficient proof of Bigfoot’s existence, it could be listed as a rare species and protected.

Her division had not made any move to investigate as the State Government had not furnished the department with any convincing reports so far, required for the Wildlife Department to order the installation of devices such as camera traps and sound monitors in the areas with sightings.

On claims that a baby Bigfoot had been captured by a team of men in vehicles bearing Wildlife Department markings, she said the department had mounted no such expedition.

Meanwhile, two American-based Bigfoot web sites, BFRO and Cryptomundo, are at loggerheads over a New Straits Times report on a Bigfoot book to be published soon.

Cryptomundo broke the story of the book, which is said to include photographs of the Johor Bigfoot, last week. BFRO, which has long been following the story, says Cryptomundo has been too patronising in its coverage.

Thanks to Cryptomundo informant Bennymac for pointing out this article, just published.

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Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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