MALAYSIA is richly endowed as one of the top 12 biodiversity hot spots in the world, meaning we have some of the world’s most treasured flora and fauna.

Our rich tropical jungle, wetlands and parks nourish and nurture this legacy and heritage that we should all be proud of.

Some of our key tourist attractions are eco-tourism icons like Taman Negara Pahang, Belum, Kinabatangan, Mulu Park and Kinabalu, which are part of our brilliant biodiversity.

In many ways God has granted us so much of natural forests and wetlands in the past that has helped tremendously to cushion climate change and also assure us clean waters, rivers and lakes.

However, that was the past.

We need to do something very quick and justify our commitment that we care for the environment.

We have so many experts in Malaysia, be it in Malaysian Nature Society (MNS), WWF or GEC, who wish to assist the Government.

Agenda 21 calls for the engagement of local stakeholders for all infrastructural development related to conservation as professed in the UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro Brazil, where Malaysia is a signatory.

It is also hope that in the coming elections all state assemblymen and Members of Parliament include items on the environment in their manifesto.

The environment is everyone’s business, especially the policy-makers and the enforcement authorities. We must ACT NOW!!