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…
THE Global Environment Centre (GEC), the Petaling Jaya Municipal Council (MPPJ) and the Backpackers Association will be running monthly trips up Bukit Gasing for secondary school students as part of a new environmental education programme. Kampung Tunku assemblyman Datuk Dr Wong Sai Hou launched the educational programme for the first batch of 60 students from…
Environmentalist Suzana Mohkeri is a firm believer that good habits — recycling, conserving and nurturing a love for nature — must begin at home. SOFIANNI SUBKI reports. AS co-ordinator of non-profit organisation Global Environment Centre (GEC), Suzana Mohkeri fights to keep our rivers free from contamination. A project that she is currently working on focuses…
PETALING JAYA: Hotspots in Riau, Sumatra, have shot up to 175. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite images yesterday showed a massive increase in the number of hotspots detected from last Thursday. On Thursday, NOAA satellites detected between 25 and 50 hotspots in Sumatra and between five and 37 in Kalimantan, Sabah…
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,…
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….
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…
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…
KUALA LUMPUR, July 16 (Bernama) — There has been a lot of talk and excitement about biotechnology being the next wave of industrial wealth to be tapped by the corporate sector as well as governments, and Malaysia is no exception in pursuing the same trend. With the launch of Bio Valley and the wooing of…
Garbage-choked Sungai Pencala is a sad reflection of how Malaysians treat their rivers and lakes. Now, however, they have been given a chance to redeem themselves, ELIZABETH JOHN writes. THE easiest thing to do when something goes wrong is to point a finger. Preferably at anyone but ourselves. Nothing exemplifies this better than the troubles…