KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Forestry Department is organising a scientific expedition to the western part of the Maliau Range at the Ulu Tungud Forest Reserve in Central Sabah, in collaboration with TSH (Forestry) Sdn Bhd and the Global Environment Centre (GEC), on Aug 9-20. Partly funded by the Keindaren Nature Conservation Fund (KNCF) of Japan,…
Treated wastewater from the proposed landfill in Bukit Tagar will be channelled into the Raja Musa peat swamp forest that feeds some of Selangor’s most important rivers. Experts who have studied the project’s Environmental Impact Assessment are questioning the move as the wastewater could reach Sungai Selangor which supplies 60 per cent of the water…
KUALA LUMPUR: The destruction of peat land is likely to increase unless effective preventive measures are put in place now, a scientist warned yesterday. “Peat fires have begun in Malaysia and Indonesia again over the past week and swift action has to be taken against them,” said Faizal Parish, director of the Global Environment Centre….