KUALA SELANGOR, 18 Feb (Bernama) — Kira- kira 300 sukarelawan antaranya kakitangan korporat HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad dan kanak-kanak sekolah menanam lebih 1,000 benih pokok di Hutan Simpan Raja Musa di sini Sabtu sempena Hari Wetland Sedunia 2012. Program menanam pokok pemulihan itu dijalankan dengan kerjasama kerajaan Selangor, Jabatan Perhutanan negeri, HSBC Bank dan Global…
KUALA SELANGOR: COMMUNITY engagement to revive and rehabilitate the almost destroyed peat land in the Raja Musa Forest Reserve was the main agenda of the Global Environment Centre (GEC) yesterday. Two community-based initiatives, Friends of Peatland Forest (FPF) and Peat Land Forest Rangers (PFR), were introduced to involve the local community as part of the…
KUALA SELANGOR: Some 300 volunteers, among them corporate staff from HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad and school children, today planted more than 1,000 saplings at the Raja Musa Forest Reserve near here to commemorate World Wetlands Day 2012. The tree-planting, under the Raja Musa Forest Reserve Rehabilitation Programme, was undertaken in collaboration with the Selangor government, State Forestry…
HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad and Global Environment Centre (GEC) has launched its new partnership under the bank’s latest environmental project — the HSBC GEC Community-Based Raja Musa Forest Reserve Rehabilitation Project in Bestari Jaya (formerly known as Batang Berjuntai), Selangor. This project is aimed at helping raise awareness of peatlands conservation through environmental education activity…
THE Selangor government will be embarking on two initiatives, one of which is to create a blueprint to conserve the forests in Selangor, said state executive councillor Elizabeth Wong. “The blueprint aims to address issues like encroachment and forest fires and the need for more effective conservation of all forest reserves, including the Kuala Langat…
KUALA SELANGOR, 25 Feb (Bernama) – Kesatuan Eropah (EU) memperuntukkan geran sebanyak 1.8 juta Euro (RM7.2 juta) bagi membayai projek Pengurusan Mapan Hutan – Hutan Tanah Gambut di Asia Tenggara (SEAPeat) untuk tempohh 4 tahun.
One of the last tracts of peat swamp forest in Selangor now faces the axe. IT IS a wasteland. Nothing grows on it save for a single tree species, mahang. Those were the reasons cited by Selangor State Agriculture Corporation to back its proposal to turn Kuala Langat South peat swamp forest into an oil palm…
Live radio interview with Faizal Parish, Director of Global Environment Centre, tells the environmental impact of turning peatland into oil palm plantation, and what the possible best practices.