aligning community expectations with Maybank
values, as well as making
community investments
that maximise short-term
and long-term impact.
In its efforts to deliver
its promises in Environmental
Conservation,
Maybank’s tiger conservation efforts spans more
than three decades.
Originally known as
Tabung Kebajikan Kumpulan Maybank, which
was set up in 1990, the
bank restructured the
welfare fund into Maybank Foundation in 2010.
The bank, which uses
a roaring tiger in its logo,
has been sponsoring the
upkeep of tigers since the
late 1970s with the tigers
in Zoo Negara and more
recently, Zoo Melaka and
Zoo Taiping.
Today the foundation
continues to be a channel
in contributing a positive
change by focusing on the
main pillars of Community and Environment,
focusing on Education,
Community
Empowerment, Healthy Living,
Arts & Culture and Environmental Conservation.
Data from the World
Bank showed that
70 of Malaysia’s
336 mammal
species were
threatened as of
2014, the seventh
highest in the world
in this category.
On the quest to promote a more sustainable
approach to developing
communities and the environment, Maybank entered into an agr