Fitri Shahminan BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN Wednesday, May 9, 2012 Public-private partnership, peatland management DEVELOPING new public-private partnership and managing the peatland were among the key steps identified in addressing forest fires and transboundary haze issues in the South Asian region. The hunt for new initiatives and mechanisms to resolve forest fire and transboundary haze issues in the South Asian region heightened yesterday as concerned…
The Ministry of Development will be making peat swamp management as “one of the priorities” in national development, according to the minister yesterday on the sidelines of the Second Ministrial Steering Committee Forum, which is currently being held in Brunei Darussalam.
Brunei Darussalam is highly commited in addressing challenges reating to haze, and this is reflected in the continued participation in issues pertaining to the matter. It is the aspiration of the Government of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam to have a clean and healthy environment.
PETALING JAYA: Companies, under their corporate social responsibility programmes, are wading in to help clean up rivers and drains to rehabilitate the water source. Guinness Anchor Berhad (GAB) Foundation, for instance, has a project called “Working Actively Through Education and Rehabilitation” (Water). Started in 2007, it reached a milestone in its effort to rehabilitate the 2.5km…
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Khamis, 22 Mac. – Persidangan Antarabangsa Hutan Paya 2012 (The International Conference on Wetland Forests 2012) sebagai wadah penting bagi memacu Negara Brunei Darussalam dalam memajukan ekonomi hijau sebagai tonggak penting dalam kepelbagaian ekonomi.
THE boat ride along the irrigation canal in Kampung Sungai Sireh, Tanjung Karang, Selangor, was refreshing and visitors could ask the boatman to stop and take a stroll along the lush edge of the forest. The waters of the peat swamp in the Sungai Karang forest reserve was the colour of black coffee. Stepping foot…
KUALA Selangor residents do not know the existence of peat swamps in the area as most of them assume it is agricultural land. SMK Sultan Sulaiman Shah teacher M. Thilaga, 38, said many of them live in Kuala Selangor but they were not even aware that the area was a peat swamp. “We didn’t even…
