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.
ALAM Flora collects an average of 5,800 tonnes of waste each day within its concession areas, namely Selangor, Pahang and the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur as well as Putrajaya. In 2009, the company collected approximately 2.1 million tonnes of waste. Now, that’s a lot of waste; most of which could have been reduced if…