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LETTER | Why is DBKL cutting down perfectly good trees in Taman Seputeh?
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LETTER | In Malaysia, warnings by conservationists that we have been losing our forest cover have been ringing in our ears for decades. Unfortunately, the problem has always seemed remote as we are constantly told that our nation’s devastating forest loss is the result of unsustainable logging and palm oil cultivation – activities that take place far away from urban areas, adversely impacting indigenous people and endangering animals like the
orang utan, sun bear, pygmy elephant and clouded leopard.
This is no longer the case as the high profits for timber, poor government regulation and corruption have brought the problem closer to our doorstep than we dare imagine. On April 12, 2021, this was made brutally clear to me when I accosted a logging truck carrying the remains of a felled hardwood tree felled from a playground in Taman Seputeh, right in the middle of Kuala Lumpur.
Doing their part: Kembara Kitchen crew preparing food packs to be distributed to the poor.
PETALING JAYA: The underprivileged and the homeless are not being neglected during Ramadan as soup kitchens continue to reach out to them amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Kembara Kitchen co-founder Chan Yi-Lyn said the main challenges during the fasting month were movement restrictions and logistics issues.
“To safeguard our crew, movement is somewhat restricted, which makes food distribution a bit of a challenge.
“However, we potentially have a mobile kitchen programme in the works with a client.
“If we get this programme up and running, and if successful, it will definitely help financially, ” she said when contacted.
Sabah Parks (TTS) will soon launch an online booking and permit application system to better facilitate hikers planning to climb Mount Kinabalu in Sabah. - Filepic
Sabah Parks (TTS) will soon launch an online booking and permit application system to better facilitate hikers planning to climb Mount Kinabalu in Sabah.
Sabah Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Jafry Ariffin said the system would enable hikers to make a direct booking and payment without having to go through agents as practised previously.
“I hope the system can make bookings easier for hikers and will provide fair opportunities for more extreme sports enthusiasts to climb Malaysia’s highest mountain, ” he said at an event in Kota Kinabalu recently. Only a certain number of permits are given out to climbers daily.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Federal Territories Ministry has identified 115 non-Muslim houses of worship in the capital built without approval on government land.