River Care Programme

KUALA KANGSAR, 8 Jun (Bernama) — Undang-undang dan peraturan bagi membendung dan mengatasi masalah pencemaran Sungai Perak tidak akan berkesan tanpa tindakan yang tegas dan bersungguh-sungguh, titah Raja Muda Perak Raja Nazrin Shah hari Khamis. Baginda bertitah pelbagai kaedah boleh dirumus termasuk meminda undang-undang dan merangka peraturan baru tetapi sekiranya ada pihak yang tidak bertanggungjawab…

Residents of Section 19, Petaling Jaya, stood transfixed. Were those really white egrets they are seeing before their very eyes? The residents have been pleasantly surprised recently with the appearance of migratory birds in the area. They are signs that the once heavily polluted Sungai Penchala running through their little neighbourhood is returning to life…

SEVERAL residents associations and Rukun Tetangga sectors in Petaling Jaya have been roped in to help in monitoring water quality at lakes in Taman Aman, Section 19 and Bukit Kiara. Test kits for the purpose were presented to them on Saturday following a talk on river rehabilitation by Global Environment Centre (GEC) senior programme officer…

Yet another Non-Governmental Organisation has been launched here and this time to save a green lung in Kelana Jaya. The “Friends of Kelana Jaya Park” was launched to ask the State Government to gazette the Taman Tasik Bandaran Kelana Jaya as a recreational park. The Friends of Kelana Jaya Park was launched by Petaling Jaya…

SAFELY hidden among the peaks and valleys of Bukit Kiara’s recreational park in Taman Tun Dr Ismail (TTDI) is the Sungai Penchala, which we have set out to discover. We do not know what to expect as we drive past the commercial area of TTDI compact with its eateries, the infamous wet market and office…

KELANA JAYA: Seramai 218 peserta menyertai ‘Kempen Selamatkan Spesies Ikan Tempatan’ bagi memancing ikan asing termasuk tilapia hitam, kerapu lombong, keli Afrika, flower horn, peacock bass dan bandaraya. Hasil kempen lima jam itu, seberat 213.934 kilogram ikan asing dapat didaratkan. Kempen itu dianjurkan oleh Persatuan Memancing Malaysia (PeMM), Global Environment Centre (GEC), Majlis Perbandaran Petaling…

UNSPOILED rivers are few in the Klang Valley and one would hardly think of finding one in Petaling Jaya. But there’s a pristine place in the Bukit Kiara Forest Reserve in Taman Tun Dr Ismail in Kuala Lumpur where a stream of crystal-clear water flows to become the infamous 12km-long Sungai Penchala which winds through…

THE Petaling Jaya Municipal Council (MPPJ) took another step towards integrating local residents in programmes for the community with its Friends of Taman Aman. The programme is based on the successful implementation of an earlier Friends of Kelana Jaya Lake that involved non-government organisations (NGOs), Rukun Tetangga (RT) and residents associations (RA). Like the earlier…

WHEN Dr Kalithasan Kailasam asked a group of students at an environment camp for an example of a clean river, they pointed to a picture of a soothing stream in a jungle. They did not realise that the other photographs of brown and murky waters were also from the same source that is Sungai Pencala….

A freshwater fish species from South America, released into our rivers by fish breeders and aquarists, may pose a threat to local fish species and the ecosystem. Thankfully, it’s not the dreaded man-eating piranha. The fish is popularly known in the fish hobbyist circle as ikan bandaraya because it does a good job cleaning up…