Respect DOE’s decision and leave peat swamp forests alone, NGO tells Selangor
“Other Government agencies also need to support and assist the DOE by upholding our environmental laws and coordinate with all parties, including Government-linked companies,” Global Environment Centre forest and coastal programme manager ...
Read More > 17-Apr-2021  | Forest 

Environmentalists fume over S'gor MB's remarks on degazetting forest
Global Environment Centre (GEC) director Faizal Parish, who has been consistently vocal about the matter, stressed that Amirudin's remarks show that he has not taken the objections by numerous parties seriously.
Read More > 28-Jan-2021  | Forest 

Coalition objects to draft plan
The proposed DUKE 2A highway would cut through the northern part of Bukit Cherakah Forest Reserve as well as the catchment of the Tasik Subang Dam water reservoir.
Read More > 01-Dec-2020  | Forest 

NGO coalition calls on S'gor govt to reschedule public hearing on forest reserve degazettement
Global Environment Centre (GEC) director Faizal Parish, in a statement Saturday (Sept 26) on behalf of the coalition, said that the hearing was supposed to be an opportunity for the KLNFR stakeholders to voice their objections and ...
Read More > 26-Sep-2020  | Forest 

Orang Asli, Adun, agensi bersatu bantah nyahwarta hutan simpan
Tok batin Kampung Busut Sari Senin bangun untuk menjelaskan bagaimana orang di kampungnya sering ke hutan simpan itu untuk mencari makanan, ubat-ubatan dan untuk amalan keagamaan.
Read More > 30-Sep-2020  | Forest 

PRESS RELEASE: The People have spoken - Hands Off Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve

Read More > 13-Nov-2020  | Forest 

S’gor govt seeks public feedback on degazetting Kuala Langat forest reserve
In a statement today, a group of seven NGOs calling itself the Coalition for the Protection of Selangor’s Forests proposed for the town hall session to be postponed to allow stakeholders more time to prepare for it. They protested how ...
Read More > 26-Sep-2020  | Forest 

Orang Asli, agencies, join in chorus against degazetting Kuala Langat forest
During the town hall session, Peninsular Malaysia Forestry Department's Wetlands Forest Management principal assistant director Harry Yong urged the state government to reconsider its plan as it would lead to a “waste of public funds”. This ...
Read More > 30-Sep-2020  | Forest 

Selamatkan hutan paya gambut terakhir di Selangor
Bukan hanya hilang tanah warisan, malah komuniti ini turut berdepan kemungkinan kehilangan sumber kehidupan ekoran tindakan kerajaan negeri Selangor yang ingin menyahwartakan kawasan seluas 930.93 hektar atau 97% hutan simpan berkenaan untuk ...
Read More > 08-Nov-2020  | Forest 

LETTER | CPSF calls on S'gor govt to stop development affecting forests
"This area is the only wildlife corridor facilitating wildlife movement between north and south. Thus, the proposed road would certainly put a stop and/or cause hindrance to such wildlife movement and increase roadkill cases."
Read More > 21-Nov-2020  | Forest 

Penyahwartaan Hutan Simpan Kekal Kuala Langat Utara
Penyahwartaan ini tidak selari dengan Rancangan Struktur Negeri 2035, kekalkan 30 peratus kawasan hutan, Pelan Tindakan Tanah Gambut Kebangsaan 2011-20, Dasar Kepelbagaian Biologi Kebangsaan 2016-25, Rancangan Fizikal Negara Ketiga, NPP3, ...
Read More > 09-Oct-2020  | Forest 

Group questions short notice for Kuala Langat forest reserve town hall meet
Global Environment Centre (GEC) director Faizal Parish said the invite only gave a few days to prepare for the town hall session. “The Orang Asli communities have yet to receive the letter of invitation when they should have been alerted ...
Read More > 26-Sep-2020  | Forest 

Amanah dalam mentadbir, memakmurkan alam
Sungai banyak memberikan manfaat cukup besar bukan sahaja kepada manusia, bahkan seluruh hidupan lain. Ia menjadi sumber bekalan air utama kepada manusia dan haiwan. Kebergantungan kepada sungai dapat dilihat dari sudut keperluan asas, iaitu ...
Read More > 09-Oct-2020  | Forest 

Demi ‘survival’ hutan simpan Kuala Langat utara
“Malah, masyarakat di sini juga dididik cara betul memelihara hutan ini dengan baik seperti mengelak melakukan aktiviti berisiko kebakaran. Sebenarnya, proses rehabilitasi hutan ini telah berjaya dan kerana itu kami tidak faham mengapa hutan ...
Read More > 14-Apr-2021  | Forest 

Demi kelangsungan 'paru-paru hijau' Selangor
Mengulas mengenainya, Pengurus Program Hutan dan Pesisir Pantai, GEC, Nagarajan Rengasamy (HE) berkata kenyataan kerajaan negeri bahawa 40 peratus daripada HSKLU sudah merosot kualiti hutannya ketika ini adalah kurang tepat. Ini kerana, ...
Read More > 14-Apr-2021  | Forest 

Projek SSAP: NGO sokong arahan henti kerja terhadap GLC S'gor
"Kami menyokong tindakan JAS dan kami berharap agar PKPS mematuhi perintah itu kerana kami difahamkan mereka masih membersihkan tanah," kata Faizal yang juga pengarah Pusat Alam Sekitar Global (GEC) kepada Malaysiakini.
Read More > 16-Apr-2021  | Forest 

Environmental groups support stop-work order on S'gor GLC's agro park
"Following the Selangor DOE's investigation at the project location, a notice order was issued to PKPS on April 8 under Section 31, Environmental Quality Act 1974 (Act 127) as well as a stop-work order for activities prescribed under Section 34AA ...
Read More > 16-Apr-2021  | Forest 

Selangor clearing another peat swamp forest without EIA, say groups
Nagarajan Rengasamy of GEC told The Malaysian Insight that the group’s team detected clearing of the site on March 15. “We detected the clearing about a month ago but the site was definitely cleared much earlier before it was detected,” he ...
Read More > 08-Apr-2021  | Forest 

Aktivis alam sekitar kecewa kenyataan MB S'gor isu nyah warta hutan simpan
Sementara itu, Faizal berkata, Hutan Simpan Utara Kuala Langat mempunyai warisan semula jadi dan budaya yang unik yang tidak dapat dijumpai di tempat lain. "Bagaimana menteri besar boleh mengatakan ini tidak penting atau boleh ditiru di tempat lain?
Read More > 28-Jan-2021  | Forest 

Because Forests Matter - Defending the Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve
It's been over a year but the battle to save the Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve is far from over. Even though the Selangor State Legislative Assembly had passed a unanimous resolution last November to stop the degazettement of the area, ...
Read More > 10-Feb-2021  | Forest