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…
ORGANISING an expo to promote an environmentally-friendly lifestyle can pose a conundrum — the event itself should be as “green” as possible. But Advanced Diploma in Mass Communication (Public Relations) students of Tunku Abdul Rahman (TAR) College managed to successfully pull it off. They even raised over RM1,000 for the Global Environment Centre (GEC) in…
Students learn why it is important to protect our wetlands at the World Habitat Day celebration Friends of Mangrove members explains the Kuala Gula mangrove eco-system to the participants. 1 / 4 HUNDREDS of students from primary and secondary schools in Perak and Penang celebrated World Habitat Day with members of Global Environment Centre (GEC) …
KUALA SELANGOR: More than 50 Timberland employees gave time and effort to preserve a peat swamp at Raja Musa Forest Reserve (RMFR) recently. Serve-A-Palooza is a yearly community service event held by Timberland, an outdoor clothing and products company. Timberland assistant retail manager Michael Fong said the event at RMFR, which is part of the north…
PUTRAJAYA: From today, more people can qualify for the RM200 government rebate when they buy energy-efficient refrigerators. The Energy, Green Technology and Water Ministry has decided to allow those with energy bills of between RM3 and RM285 per month to claim the RM200 rebate for refrigerators it rates as effi-cient. Previously, only households in peninsular…
KUALA LUMPUR – Korean artiste Kim Hyun Joong, whose fame exploded across Asia after playing the Korean F4 character Yoon Ji Hoo in the drama Boys Over Flowers, attracted about 1,000 fans to Berjaya Times Square yesterday. Kim, 25, who flew in on Saturday to promote his debut solo album Break Down, was at the…
ABOUT 95% of mangrove swamp land along the coastal area in Selangor belong to individuals. Selangor Forestry Department assistant director (operations and enforcement) Mohd Yussainy Md Yusop said the mangrove swamps stretched from Sabak Bernam right up to Sepang. “The department only looks after the land which comes under the forest reserve and the rest…
GEORGE TOWN: It was a fun yet meaningful activity for 33 Methodist Girls’ School (MGS) students who played their part for the environment by throwing 2,000 mud balls into the sea along Gurney Drive. Connection Programme 2011 director Marina Tan, 17, who arranged the event, said the students made a difference to the environment by volunteering…