
Peatland Programme
The project focuses on empowering and building the capacity of the Temuan Orang Asli communities towards social entrepreneurship to enhance the livelihood options of the communities.
The project will work with different Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) and primarily address the land degradation problems faced by them in the different targeted landscapes.
The project aims to protect the remaining mangroves and rehabilitate degraded areas through tree planting and maintenance in Kuala Muda, Kedah.
The project spans over four states in the West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia and aims to address the mangrove degradation issues, reduce the effects of coastal erosion and deal with the issues of rising sea levels due to climate change at local level.
The project aims to plant 12,000 trees at degraded peatland, mangrove and rural village areas in Selangor with active community participation and develop community capacity to adapt to climate change.
The project aims to increase the knowledge and awareness of the importance of mangroves at the same time can protect and enhance their natural environment amongst the secondary and primary schools in Kota Tinggi District and nearby districts that have the potential to be involved in this environmental education programme.
The project focuses on mitigating the coastal erosion and rehabilitating 11 hectares of degraded mangroves with coastal communities in Riau Province in Sumatra, Indonesia and Soc Trang Province in the Lower Mekong Delta, Viet Nam.
The project mainly to encourage Yayasan PETRONAS employees to live healthy by linking the number of steps they take to the number trees to be planted. The Walk4Trees Challenge will engage local communities with the nursery establishment, tree planting activities at different locations around Malaysia and maintenance of planted trees.
The project focuses on rehabilitating degraded mangrove areas in Tebuk Mendeleng, Sabak Bernam, through community-based tree planting and maintenance activities.
GEC has partnered with Aramco Overseas Malaysia (AOM) Sdn. Bhd to carry out another 3 years of Aramco’s Malaysia mangrove planting initiative.
TH Plantations Berhad (THP) and GEC partners to protect and rehabilitate forests and peatlands in the north-eastern portion of Gunung Arong Forest Reserve, Johor.
The project aims to assist and empower three targeted Orang Asli communities in Peninsular Malaysia to address land degradation near their villages and to protect and rehabilitate forest, peatlands and rivers.
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