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CLEAN MALAYSIA
Clean Malaysia is an independent online news site covering all aspects of Malaysia’s environmental landscape. We are dedicated to delivering news, analysis and opinions to both Malaysians and the international community. LET'S SAVE THE MAJESTIC HORNBILLS Let’s Save the Majestic Hornbills. A rhinoceros hornbill perches in a tree in Malaysia. Photo Credit; Wikimedia Commons. Hornbills, as their very name suggests, are gaudy birds distinguished primarily by their enormous curved beaks with a protruding crest atop their upper mandibles. Known as a casque, it is a wedge of keratin – the same SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT IN MALAYSIA The Malaysian Timber Certification Council (MTCC) has been pushing for sustainable forestry since its inception in 1998. The country-wide organization’s biggest success has been the Malaysian Timber Certification Scheme (MTCS), an initiative and national commitment towards sustainable forest management. Since 2001 the program has seena total
YELLOW MERANTI ARCHIVES It stands at 89.5 meters tall in Sabah’s Maliau Basin Conservation Area. That height makes this Yellow Meranti (Shorea faguetiana) – a species endemic to Borneo, peninsular Malaysia and parts of Thailand – probably the tallest tree in the tropics anywhere in the world,according to
LET'S SAVE THE PLANET TOGETHER Let’s Save the Planet Together. We can still save the planet if we join forces. Photo Credit: www.handinhandworld.com. One day, warns Ahmad A Talib, chairman of the environmentalist group Yayasan Salam Malaysia, the pleasant blue and green world we’ve long known as our home planet will have ceased to exist as a haven of natural wonders. LET US SAVE MALAYSIA'S LAST DUGONGS Let us Save Malaysia’s last Dugongs. A dugong munches on a bit of seagrass. Photo Credit: Flickr. Among Malaysia’s least-known residents is a species of shy marine mammals. They look remarkably like seals and are almost as elusive as the mythical mermaids that people used to mistake them for. We’re talking of dugongs, ofcourse.
MALAYSIA'S CORAL REEFS ARE BEING BOMBED Blast fishing is illegal now, but because reef systems grow very slowly, the damage done then is still being felt today. “Reefs that were blasted in the forties, fifties and sixties are still wastelands, they are still deserts now in 2015,” Oakley remorsed. This is bad news, but worse is the fact that blast fishing is an ongoing problem. JUST HOW BIG IS MALAYSIA’S PALM OIL INDUSTRY? The Palm Oil industry accounts for 5-6% of Malaysia’s GDP. Palm oil is expected to contribute RM 69.3 billion (USD 16.1 billion) to the country’s GDP in 2015 – and plans have been made to increase palm oil revenue to 178 billion Malaysian Ringgit (USD 56.5 billion) by 2020. Who owns and controls Malaysia’s oil palm plantations ? ILLEGAL DEFORESTATION IN MALAYSIA By She Mei Tan. It is exciting and yet depressing when news headlines are splashed with the success of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC)’s seizure of logs worth RM600,000, its raids of 48 log ponds, sawmills and business premises, and its freezing of 375 bank accounts belonging to individuals and companies involved withillegal logging.
CLOSING OFF IDYLLIC BEACHES TO MASS TOURISM CAN HELP SAVE The island will be closed off to tourism for six months. Last year 2 million tourists visited the island, which is famed for its white-sand beaches. They brought in more than $1 billion in the process, a vast sum of money in the Philippines. Needless to say, the closure will affect many of the 500 tourism-related businesses on Boracay.CLEAN MALAYSIA
Clean Malaysia is an independent online news site covering all aspects of Malaysia’s environmental landscape. We are dedicated to delivering news, analysis and opinions to both Malaysians and the international community. LET'S SAVE THE MAJESTIC HORNBILLS Let’s Save the Majestic Hornbills. A rhinoceros hornbill perches in a tree in Malaysia. Photo Credit; Wikimedia Commons. Hornbills, as their very name suggests, are gaudy birds distinguished primarily by their enormous curved beaks with a protruding crest atop their upper mandibles. Known as a casque, it is a wedge of keratin – the same SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT IN MALAYSIA The Malaysian Timber Certification Council (MTCC) has been pushing for sustainable forestry since its inception in 1998. The country-wide organization’s biggest success has been the Malaysian Timber Certification Scheme (MTCS), an initiative and national commitment towards sustainable forest management. Since 2001 the program has seena total
YELLOW MERANTI ARCHIVES It stands at 89.5 meters tall in Sabah’s Maliau Basin Conservation Area. That height makes this Yellow Meranti (Shorea faguetiana) – a species endemic to Borneo, peninsular Malaysia and parts of Thailand – probably the tallest tree in the tropics anywhere in the world,according to
LET'S SAVE THE PLANET TOGETHER Let’s Save the Planet Together. We can still save the planet if we join forces. Photo Credit: www.handinhandworld.com. One day, warns Ahmad A Talib, chairman of the environmentalist group Yayasan Salam Malaysia, the pleasant blue and green world we’ve long known as our home planet will have ceased to exist as a haven of natural wonders. LET US SAVE MALAYSIA'S LAST DUGONGS Let us Save Malaysia’s last Dugongs. A dugong munches on a bit of seagrass. Photo Credit: Flickr. Among Malaysia’s least-known residents is a species of shy marine mammals. They look remarkably like seals and are almost as elusive as the mythical mermaids that people used to mistake them for. We’re talking of dugongs, ofcourse.
MALAYSIA'S CORAL REEFS ARE BEING BOMBED Blast fishing is illegal now, but because reef systems grow very slowly, the damage done then is still being felt today. “Reefs that were blasted in the forties, fifties and sixties are still wastelands, they are still deserts now in 2015,” Oakley remorsed. This is bad news, but worse is the fact that blast fishing is an ongoing problem. JUST HOW BIG IS MALAYSIA’S PALM OIL INDUSTRY? The Palm Oil industry accounts for 5-6% of Malaysia’s GDP. Palm oil is expected to contribute RM 69.3 billion (USD 16.1 billion) to the country’s GDP in 2015 – and plans have been made to increase palm oil revenue to 178 billion Malaysian Ringgit (USD 56.5 billion) by 2020. Who owns and controls Malaysia’s oil palm plantations ? ILLEGAL DEFORESTATION IN MALAYSIA By She Mei Tan. It is exciting and yet depressing when news headlines are splashed with the success of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC)’s seizure of logs worth RM600,000, its raids of 48 log ponds, sawmills and business premises, and its freezing of 375 bank accounts belonging to individuals and companies involved withillegal logging.
CLOSING OFF IDYLLIC BEACHES TO MASS TOURISM CAN HELP SAVE The island will be closed off to tourism for six months. Last year 2 million tourists visited the island, which is famed for its white-sand beaches. They brought in more than $1 billion in the process, a vast sum of money in the Philippines. Needless to say, the closure will affect many of the 500 tourism-related businesses on Boracay.CLEAN MALAYSIA
Clean Malaysia is an independent online news site covering all aspects of Malaysia’s environmental landscape. We are dedicated to delivering news, analysis and opinions to both Malaysians and the international community. CLOSING OFF IDYLLIC BEACHES TO MASS TOURISM CAN HELP SAVE The island will be closed off to tourism for six months. Last year 2 million tourists visited the island, which is famed for its white-sand beaches. They brought in more than $1 billion in the process, a vast sum of money in the Philippines. Needless to say, the closure will affect many of the 500 tourism-related businesses on Boracay. CIGARETTE BUTTS CAN BE USED TO BUILD HOMES Cigarette Butts can be used to build Homes. Discarded cigarette butts are a scourge on the environment. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Like it or not, Malaysia is a land of smokers. Four out of every 10 male citizens are habitual smokers, amounting to an estimated 4.7 million people. Many of them pick up the harmful habit as teenagersand
BUILDING WILDLIFE CROSSINGS TO SAVE ANIMALS FROM ENDING UP Over the past five years, according to official figures, upwards of 2,130 wild animals are known to have perished in such accidents in Peninsular Malaysia alone: tigers, leopards, leopard cats, dozens of tapirs, scores of monkeys, myriad other creatures large and small. With almost 494 wildlife deaths in the state between 2012 and 2016,Johor
MOST REPTILES KEPT AS EXOTIC PETS DIE WITHIN A SINGLE YEAR Most Reptiles kept as Exotic Pets die Within a Single Year. Environment. Exotic pets like this Chinese water dragon frequently perish within months in captivity. Photo Credit: pxhere. Lots of Malaysians love to have pets. Many of these Malaysians prefer “exotic” pets: monkeys, slow lorises, binturongs, snakes, turtlesand a whole host of
STOP BEFOULING THE CAMERON HIGHLANDS Illegal farming has left open wounds in the area’s landscape, while slash-and-burning agriculture has devastated large swathes of forest. “Back in 2002, there were only eight vegetable farms around Kuala Terla,” Ramakrishnan Ramasamy, president of a local community-based organization called Regional Environmental Awareness Cameron Highlands (R.E.A.C.H.), observed a few months ago. CATS AND DOGS ARE NOW ON THE MENU IN MALAYSIA. THIS MUST Most Malaysians frown on the killing of cats and dogs for their meat and rightly so. Yet the practice of treating the animals as food is now known to have appeared in Malaysia too. The local animal rights group Malaysia Animal Association (MAA) has discovered that a Vietnamese couple were recently selling dog meat to other Vietnamesenationals
COASTAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE STRAITS OF MALACCA HARMS CORALS Coastal development can rob turtles of their nesting grounds and harm nearby corals. Photo Credit: SEE Turtles. According to a recent study by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), critically endangered hawksbill turtles, which like to live in coral reef habitats, have been migrating from Malacca to the Riau Island archipelago, inIndonesia, in
ONE IN 10 MALAYSIAN RIVERS IS BADLY POLLUTED One in 10 Malaysian Rivers is Badly Polluted. A thick coat of refuse on a river is not only unsightly but unhygienic. Photo Credit: Pixabay. Forty-three. That’s how many rivers in Malaysia are badly polluted. That may not seem too bad, considering that there are 473 rivers in total around the country that are monitored for their levelsof
PLANT YET MORE TREES IN SHAH ALAM Conservation isn’t an event. It’s a process. But it can also be a series of events. Like planting trees in Shah Alam. In March a young local environmentalist spearheaded a tree-planting event in town. If you missed out on that one, however, despair not: you can now join another tree-planting event organized by Bernard Eng, of Eco Warriors Malaysia, for the Shah Alam Municipal Council this LET'S SAVE THE MAJESTIC HORNBILLS Let’s Save the Majestic Hornbills. A rhinoceros hornbill perches in a tree in Malaysia. Photo Credit; Wikimedia Commons. Hornbills, as their very name suggests, are gaudy birds distinguished primarily by their enormous curved beaks with a protruding crest atop their upper mandibles. Known as a casque, it is a wedge of keratin – the same BAUXITE MINING IN MALAYSIA ARCHIVES A Potential Export Ban on Bauxite in Malaysia. After months of suffering from intense industrial pollution, the residents of Pahang – Malaysia’s unofficial bauxite mining capital – could be looking at some relief. The Malaysian Federal Government agreed on November 16 to suggest a temporary suspension of bauxite exports fromPahang.
SAVING MALAYSIA'S CORAL REEFS If that happens on a mass scale, it will, needless to say, be an environmental calamity of epic proportions. Not only do many coral reefs serve as natural underwater buffers protecting coasts from waves and stormy waters, but they are also homes LET'S SAVE THE PLANET TOGETHER Let’s Save the Planet Together. We can still save the planet if we join forces. Photo Credit: www.handinhandworld.com. One day, warns Ahmad A Talib, chairman of the environmentalist group Yayasan Salam Malaysia, the pleasant blue and green world we’ve long known as our home planet will have ceased to exist as a haven of natural wonders. CLOSING OFF IDYLLIC BEACHES TO MASS TOURISM CAN HELP SAVE The island will be closed off to tourism for six months. Last year 2 million tourists visited the island, which is famed for its white-sand beaches. They brought in more than $1 billion in the process, a vast sum of money in the Philippines. Needless to say, the closure will affect many of the 500 tourism-related businesses on Boracay. CIGARETTE BUTTS CAN BE USED TO BUILD HOMES Cigarette Butts can be used to build Homes. Discarded cigarette butts are a scourge on the environment. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Like it or not, Malaysia is a land of smokers. Four out of every 10 male citizens are habitual smokers, amounting to an estimated 4.7 million people. Many of them pick up the harmful habit as teenagersand
BUILDING WILDLIFE CROSSINGS TO SAVE ANIMALS FROM ENDING UP Over the past five years, according to official figures, upwards of 2,130 wild animals are known to have perished in such accidents in Peninsular Malaysia alone: tigers, leopards, leopard cats, dozens of tapirs, scores of monkeys, myriad other creatures large and small. With almost 494 wildlife deaths in the state between 2012 and 2016,Johor
MALAYSIA'S CORAL REEFS ARE BEING BOMBED Blast fishing is illegal now, but because reef systems grow very slowly, the damage done then is still being felt today. “Reefs that were blasted in the forties, fifties and sixties are still wastelands, they are still deserts now in 2015,” Oakley remorsed. This is bad news, but worse is the fact that blast fishing is an ongoing problem. HOW DRONES ARE BEING USED TO FIGHT DEFORESTATION IN 2019SEE MORE ON CLEANMALAYSIA.COMDEFORESTATION RESEARCH PAPERDEFORESTATION RESEARCHQUESTION
LAST TWO ORANGUTANS ARE RELEASED FROM RASA RIA RESORT IN Photo Credit: Animalia Life. And then there were none – orangutans left at Shangri-La’s Rasa Ria Resort & Spa, that is. In a move celebrated by Malaysian conservationists as an important victory, the last two orangutans held at the luxury resort in Kota Kinabalu have now been sent to the Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre in Sepilok. LET'S SAVE THE MAJESTIC HORNBILLS Let’s Save the Majestic Hornbills. A rhinoceros hornbill perches in a tree in Malaysia. Photo Credit; Wikimedia Commons. Hornbills, as their very name suggests, are gaudy birds distinguished primarily by their enormous curved beaks with a protruding crest atop their upper mandibles. Known as a casque, it is a wedge of keratin – the same BAUXITE MINING IN MALAYSIA ARCHIVES A Potential Export Ban on Bauxite in Malaysia. After months of suffering from intense industrial pollution, the residents of Pahang – Malaysia’s unofficial bauxite mining capital – could be looking at some relief. The Malaysian Federal Government agreed on November 16 to suggest a temporary suspension of bauxite exports fromPahang.
SAVING MALAYSIA'S CORAL REEFS If that happens on a mass scale, it will, needless to say, be an environmental calamity of epic proportions. Not only do many coral reefs serve as natural underwater buffers protecting coasts from waves and stormy waters, but they are also homes LET'S SAVE THE PLANET TOGETHER Let’s Save the Planet Together. We can still save the planet if we join forces. Photo Credit: www.handinhandworld.com. One day, warns Ahmad A Talib, chairman of the environmentalist group Yayasan Salam Malaysia, the pleasant blue and green world we’ve long known as our home planet will have ceased to exist as a haven of natural wonders. CLOSING OFF IDYLLIC BEACHES TO MASS TOURISM CAN HELP SAVE The island will be closed off to tourism for six months. Last year 2 million tourists visited the island, which is famed for its white-sand beaches. They brought in more than $1 billion in the process, a vast sum of money in the Philippines. Needless to say, the closure will affect many of the 500 tourism-related businesses on Boracay. CIGARETTE BUTTS CAN BE USED TO BUILD HOMES Cigarette Butts can be used to build Homes. Discarded cigarette butts are a scourge on the environment. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Like it or not, Malaysia is a land of smokers. Four out of every 10 male citizens are habitual smokers, amounting to an estimated 4.7 million people. Many of them pick up the harmful habit as teenagersand
BUILDING WILDLIFE CROSSINGS TO SAVE ANIMALS FROM ENDING UP Over the past five years, according to official figures, upwards of 2,130 wild animals are known to have perished in such accidents in Peninsular Malaysia alone: tigers, leopards, leopard cats, dozens of tapirs, scores of monkeys, myriad other creatures large and small. With almost 494 wildlife deaths in the state between 2012 and 2016,Johor
MALAYSIA'S CORAL REEFS ARE BEING BOMBED Blast fishing is illegal now, but because reef systems grow very slowly, the damage done then is still being felt today. “Reefs that were blasted in the forties, fifties and sixties are still wastelands, they are still deserts now in 2015,” Oakley remorsed. This is bad news, but worse is the fact that blast fishing is an ongoing problem. HOW DRONES ARE BEING USED TO FIGHT DEFORESTATION IN 2019SEE MORE ON CLEANMALAYSIA.COMDEFORESTATION RESEARCH PAPERDEFORESTATION RESEARCHQUESTION
LAST TWO ORANGUTANS ARE RELEASED FROM RASA RIA RESORT IN Photo Credit: Animalia Life. And then there were none – orangutans left at Shangri-La’s Rasa Ria Resort & Spa, that is. In a move celebrated by Malaysian conservationists as an important victory, the last two orangutans held at the luxury resort in Kota Kinabalu have now been sent to the Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre in Sepilok.CLEAN MALAYSIA
Clean Malaysia is an independent online news site covering all aspects of Malaysia’s environmental landscape. We are dedicated to delivering news, analysis and opinions to both Malaysians and the international community. ENVIRONMENT ARCHIVES Guest post by Jewel Brookfield Here at Clean Malaysia we’ve already established the importance of implementing environment-friendly practices at home, be it through habits, design changes, or modern technology. It’s all important stuff, but we’d like to take a closer look at that third aspect – technology. After all, recentyears.
ENDANGERED SPECIES IN MALAYSIA ARCHIVES The Maroon Langur, also known as the Maroon leaf monkey, is a threatened primate species endemic to the island of Borneo. Of medium size and rusty red color, they swing from tree to tree feeding on leaves, seeds and fruits. Their appetites are quite exploratory – they may sample more. Read More. SAVING MALAYSIA'S CORAL REEFS If that happens on a mass scale, it will, needless to say, be an environmental calamity of epic proportions. Not only do many coral reefs serve as natural underwater buffers protecting coasts from waves and stormy waters, but they are also homes CIGARETTE BUTTS CAN BE USED TO BUILD HOMES Cigarette Butts can be used to build Homes. Discarded cigarette butts are a scourge on the environment. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Like it or not, Malaysia is a land of smokers. Four out of every 10 male citizens are habitual smokers, amounting to an estimated 4.7 million people. Many of them pick up the harmful habit as teenagersand
MALAYSIA'S CORAL REEFS ARE BEING BOMBED Blast fishing is illegal now, but because reef systems grow very slowly, the damage done then is still being felt today. “Reefs that were blasted in the forties, fifties and sixties are still wastelands, they are still deserts now in 2015,” Oakley remorsed. This is bad news, but worse is the fact that blast fishing is an ongoing problem. LITTERING AND WASTE ARE THREATS TO OUR Littering is a curse on public health and on the environment. Photo Credit: Your New Leader. Waste food, we might add, can attract even less welcome and more dangerous animals, like cobras and pythons, to homes and backyards as some Malaysians have found to their horror. Yet heavily populated areas in many Malaysian towns and cities have long HOW DRONES ARE BEING USED TO FIGHT DEFORESTATION IN 2019 Drones offer a solution to this problem as well. Flying above deforested areas, drones can drop or launch seed pods at the ground with enough force to bury them in the soil. Sometimes called ‘seed dropping,’ this tree-planting technique can be up to CORAL REEF CONSERVATION IN BORNEO Coral reef destruction, ocean acidification and illegal fishing are gripping the island of Borneo, but an insightful marine conservation outfit is doing everything it can to reverse the damage. The Tropical Research and Conservation Center ( TRACC) is a nonprofit organization based in Sabah, Malaysia on the island of Borneo. CATS AND DOGS ARE NOW ON THE MENU IN MALAYSIA. THIS MUST Most Malaysians frown on the killing of cats and dogs for their meat and rightly so. Yet the practice of treating the animals as food is now known to have appeared in Malaysia too. The local animal rights group Malaysia Animal Association (MAA) has discovered that a Vietnamese couple were recently selling dog meat to other Vietnamesenationals
LET'S SAVE THE MAJESTIC HORNBILLS Let’s Save the Majestic Hornbills. A rhinoceros hornbill perches in a tree in Malaysia. Photo Credit; Wikimedia Commons. Hornbills, as their very name suggests, are gaudy birds distinguished primarily by their enormous curved beaks with a protruding crest atop their upper mandibles. Known as a casque, it is a wedge of keratin – the same BAUXITE MINING IN MALAYSIA ARCHIVES A Potential Export Ban on Bauxite in Malaysia. After months of suffering from intense industrial pollution, the residents of Pahang – Malaysia’s unofficial bauxite mining capital – could be looking at some relief. The Malaysian Federal Government agreed on November 16 to suggest a temporary suspension of bauxite exports fromPahang.
SAVING MALAYSIA'S CORAL REEFS If that happens on a mass scale, it will, needless to say, be an environmental calamity of epic proportions. Not only do many coral reefs serve as natural underwater buffers protecting coasts from waves and stormy waters, but they are also homes LET'S SAVE THE PLANET TOGETHER Let’s Save the Planet Together. We can still save the planet if we join forces. Photo Credit: www.handinhandworld.com. One day, warns Ahmad A Talib, chairman of the environmentalist group Yayasan Salam Malaysia, the pleasant blue and green world we’ve long known as our home planet will have ceased to exist as a haven of natural wonders. CLOSING OFF IDYLLIC BEACHES TO MASS TOURISM CAN HELP SAVE The island will be closed off to tourism for six months. Last year 2 million tourists visited the island, which is famed for its white-sand beaches. They brought in more than $1 billion in the process, a vast sum of money in the Philippines. Needless to say, the closure will affect many of the 500 tourism-related businesses on Boracay. CIGARETTE BUTTS CAN BE USED TO BUILD HOMES Cigarette Butts can be used to build Homes. Discarded cigarette butts are a scourge on the environment. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Like it or not, Malaysia is a land of smokers. Four out of every 10 male citizens are habitual smokers, amounting to an estimated 4.7 million people. Many of them pick up the harmful habit as teenagersand
BUILDING WILDLIFE CROSSINGS TO SAVE ANIMALS FROM ENDING UP Over the past five years, according to official figures, upwards of 2,130 wild animals are known to have perished in such accidents in Peninsular Malaysia alone: tigers, leopards, leopard cats, dozens of tapirs, scores of monkeys, myriad other creatures large and small. With almost 494 wildlife deaths in the state between 2012 and 2016,Johor
MALAYSIA'S CORAL REEFS ARE BEING BOMBED Blast fishing is illegal now, but because reef systems grow very slowly, the damage done then is still being felt today. “Reefs that were blasted in the forties, fifties and sixties are still wastelands, they are still deserts now in 2015,” Oakley remorsed. This is bad news, but worse is the fact that blast fishing is an ongoing problem. HOW DRONES ARE BEING USED TO FIGHT DEFORESTATION IN 2019SEE MORE ON CLEANMALAYSIA.COMDEFORESTATION RESEARCH PAPERDEFORESTATION RESEARCHQUESTION
LAST TWO ORANGUTANS ARE RELEASED FROM RASA RIA RESORT IN Photo Credit: Animalia Life. And then there were none – orangutans left at Shangri-La’s Rasa Ria Resort & Spa, that is. In a move celebrated by Malaysian conservationists as an important victory, the last two orangutans held at the luxury resort in Kota Kinabalu have now been sent to the Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre in Sepilok. LET'S SAVE THE MAJESTIC HORNBILLS Let’s Save the Majestic Hornbills. A rhinoceros hornbill perches in a tree in Malaysia. Photo Credit; Wikimedia Commons. Hornbills, as their very name suggests, are gaudy birds distinguished primarily by their enormous curved beaks with a protruding crest atop their upper mandibles. Known as a casque, it is a wedge of keratin – the same BAUXITE MINING IN MALAYSIA ARCHIVES A Potential Export Ban on Bauxite in Malaysia. After months of suffering from intense industrial pollution, the residents of Pahang – Malaysia’s unofficial bauxite mining capital – could be looking at some relief. The Malaysian Federal Government agreed on November 16 to suggest a temporary suspension of bauxite exports fromPahang.
SAVING MALAYSIA'S CORAL REEFS If that happens on a mass scale, it will, needless to say, be an environmental calamity of epic proportions. Not only do many coral reefs serve as natural underwater buffers protecting coasts from waves and stormy waters, but they are also homes LET'S SAVE THE PLANET TOGETHER Let’s Save the Planet Together. We can still save the planet if we join forces. Photo Credit: www.handinhandworld.com. One day, warns Ahmad A Talib, chairman of the environmentalist group Yayasan Salam Malaysia, the pleasant blue and green world we’ve long known as our home planet will have ceased to exist as a haven of natural wonders. CLOSING OFF IDYLLIC BEACHES TO MASS TOURISM CAN HELP SAVE The island will be closed off to tourism for six months. Last year 2 million tourists visited the island, which is famed for its white-sand beaches. They brought in more than $1 billion in the process, a vast sum of money in the Philippines. Needless to say, the closure will affect many of the 500 tourism-related businesses on Boracay. CIGARETTE BUTTS CAN BE USED TO BUILD HOMES Cigarette Butts can be used to build Homes. Discarded cigarette butts are a scourge on the environment. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Like it or not, Malaysia is a land of smokers. Four out of every 10 male citizens are habitual smokers, amounting to an estimated 4.7 million people. Many of them pick up the harmful habit as teenagersand
BUILDING WILDLIFE CROSSINGS TO SAVE ANIMALS FROM ENDING UP Over the past five years, according to official figures, upwards of 2,130 wild animals are known to have perished in such accidents in Peninsular Malaysia alone: tigers, leopards, leopard cats, dozens of tapirs, scores of monkeys, myriad other creatures large and small. With almost 494 wildlife deaths in the state between 2012 and 2016,Johor
MALAYSIA'S CORAL REEFS ARE BEING BOMBED Blast fishing is illegal now, but because reef systems grow very slowly, the damage done then is still being felt today. “Reefs that were blasted in the forties, fifties and sixties are still wastelands, they are still deserts now in 2015,” Oakley remorsed. This is bad news, but worse is the fact that blast fishing is an ongoing problem. HOW DRONES ARE BEING USED TO FIGHT DEFORESTATION IN 2019SEE MORE ON CLEANMALAYSIA.COMDEFORESTATION RESEARCH PAPERDEFORESTATION RESEARCHQUESTION
LAST TWO ORANGUTANS ARE RELEASED FROM RASA RIA RESORT IN Photo Credit: Animalia Life. And then there were none – orangutans left at Shangri-La’s Rasa Ria Resort & Spa, that is. In a move celebrated by Malaysian conservationists as an important victory, the last two orangutans held at the luxury resort in Kota Kinabalu have now been sent to the Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre in Sepilok.CLEAN MALAYSIA
Clean Malaysia is an independent online news site covering all aspects of Malaysia’s environmental landscape. We are dedicated to delivering news, analysis and opinions to both Malaysians and the international community. ENVIRONMENT ARCHIVES Guest post by Jewel Brookfield Here at Clean Malaysia we’ve already established the importance of implementing environment-friendly practices at home, be it through habits, design changes, or modern technology. It’s all important stuff, but we’d like to take a closer look at that third aspect – technology. After all, recentyears.
ENDANGERED SPECIES IN MALAYSIA ARCHIVES The Maroon Langur, also known as the Maroon leaf monkey, is a threatened primate species endemic to the island of Borneo. Of medium size and rusty red color, they swing from tree to tree feeding on leaves, seeds and fruits. Their appetites are quite exploratory – they may sample more. Read More. SAVING MALAYSIA'S CORAL REEFS If that happens on a mass scale, it will, needless to say, be an environmental calamity of epic proportions. Not only do many coral reefs serve as natural underwater buffers protecting coasts from waves and stormy waters, but they are also homes CIGARETTE BUTTS CAN BE USED TO BUILD HOMES Cigarette Butts can be used to build Homes. Discarded cigarette butts are a scourge on the environment. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Like it or not, Malaysia is a land of smokers. Four out of every 10 male citizens are habitual smokers, amounting to an estimated 4.7 million people. Many of them pick up the harmful habit as teenagersand
MALAYSIA'S CORAL REEFS ARE BEING BOMBED Blast fishing is illegal now, but because reef systems grow very slowly, the damage done then is still being felt today. “Reefs that were blasted in the forties, fifties and sixties are still wastelands, they are still deserts now in 2015,” Oakley remorsed. This is bad news, but worse is the fact that blast fishing is an ongoing problem. LITTERING AND WASTE ARE THREATS TO OUR Littering is a curse on public health and on the environment. Photo Credit: Your New Leader. Waste food, we might add, can attract even less welcome and more dangerous animals, like cobras and pythons, to homes and backyards as some Malaysians have found to their horror. Yet heavily populated areas in many Malaysian towns and cities have long HOW DRONES ARE BEING USED TO FIGHT DEFORESTATION IN 2019 Drones offer a solution to this problem as well. Flying above deforested areas, drones can drop or launch seed pods at the ground with enough force to bury them in the soil. Sometimes called ‘seed dropping,’ this tree-planting technique can be up to CORAL REEF CONSERVATION IN BORNEO Coral reef destruction, ocean acidification and illegal fishing are gripping the island of Borneo, but an insightful marine conservation outfit is doing everything it can to reverse the damage. The Tropical Research and Conservation Center ( TRACC) is a nonprofit organization based in Sabah, Malaysia on the island of Borneo. CATS AND DOGS ARE NOW ON THE MENU IN MALAYSIA. THIS MUST Most Malaysians frown on the killing of cats and dogs for their meat and rightly so. Yet the practice of treating the animals as food is now known to have appeared in Malaysia too. The local animal rights group Malaysia Animal Association (MAA) has discovered that a Vietnamese couple were recently selling dog meat to other Vietnamesenationals
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WOULD CASINO RESORTS HARM THE MALAYSIAN ENVIRONMENT? Over the last 20 years or so, Southeast Asia and the larger Pacific region have become known for having some of the premier casino resort areas in the entire world. While Las Vegas in the United States may still be king in this regard, some of the most luxurious casino…Read More
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HOW DRONES ARE BEING USED TO FIGHT DEFORESTATION IN 2019 By Mark Sheehan Deforestation has been a serious global problem for several decades. Illegal logging has been happening for decades; wildfires and other disasters take their toll as well. Enforcing laws can be a dangerous game and reforestation cannot keep up. Drones are changing the way we combat these losses….Read More
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5 HIGH-TECH WAYS TO MAKE YOUR HOME GREENER Guest post by Jewel Brookfield Here at Clean Malaysia we’ve already established the importance of implementing environment-friendly practices at home, be it through habits, design changes, or modern technology. It’s all important stuff, but we’d like to take a closer look at that third aspect – technology. After all, recentyears…
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Comment Environment CLOSING OFF IDYLLIC BEACHES TO MASS TOURISM CAN HELP SAVE THEM Tourism is a vital part of economies in Southeast Asia, but much of tourism across the region comes with considerable costs to the environment. Popular destinations like beaches continue to be despoiled by the relentless swarm of tourists. Yet local authorities are often reluctant to limit mass tourism to such…Read More
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CATS AND DOGS ARE NOW ON THE MENU IN MALAYSIA. THIS MUST STOP In Vietnam cats and dogs are often on the menu. Many Vietnamese consider the animals as a delicacy and so thousands upon thousands of strays are snatched from streets and numerous pets are taken from outside homes. The cates and dogs are then slaughtered, often with appalling cruelty, in specialist…Read More
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MACAQUES TOO LIKE … WAIT FOR IT … RAUNCHY ADS Some like raunchy ads. Others find them distasteful. These others, though, do not include rhesus macaques, apparently. So say a group of researchers, who have done a study with the well-known Old World monkeys and found that the primates reacted better to advertising with sexually explicit imagery. Seriously. In a special…Read More
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THE AMAZON’S FORESTS ARE IN BIG TROUBLE Borneo’s stunningly biodiverse forests have been shrinking at alarming rates with trees being felled unceasingly for timber or so that palm oil plantations can take their place. Yet it’s not just the island’s forests that are reaching a crisis point. So are the forests of the Amazon, which too are…Read More
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TESCO MALAYSIA WANTS TO HELP SHOPPERS IN WASTING FEWER PLASTIC BAGS The scourge of plastic waste is blighting the environment in Malaysia and numerous initiatives aimed at weaning consumers off using disposable plastic bags have borne mixed results. Now comes another such initiative, this time by the British supermarket chain Tesco. In its “unforgettable bag” campaign, which has been set in…Read More
Comment Environment MOST TIGER RESERVES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA ARE BELOW PAR. THIS MUST CHANGE Out of 112 tiger conservation areas in 11 countries around Southeast Asia and farther afield, only a little over a tenth (13%) meet global standards. Worse: a third of these areas are at risk of losing their tigers because of inadequate protection and poor management. This isaccording to a…
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AT LEAST 150 WILD ANIMAL SPECIES ARE BEING TRAFFICKED IN MALAYSIA Last year officials of the Wildlife and National Parks Department (Perhilitan) rescued creatures belonging to 150 species. You’ve read that right: In 2017 wildlife officials handled nearly 3,000 cases of wildlife trafficking in which animals from a whopping 150 species, according to Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar, minister of Natural Resourcesand…
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A US MANUFACTURER HAS DESIGNED COOL NEW GREEN TIRES FOR ELECTRICVEHICLES
Electric vehicles are the vehicles of the future as motorists around the planet seek to wean themselves off fossil fuels. Yet some kinks in technology will still need to be ironed out in order for electric cars to be truly efficient. And, no, it’s not only batteries that willneed…
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WILD BEARDED PIGS ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OIL PALM PLANTATIONS INSABAH
The endless stretches of palm oil plantations may please the eye of cultivators but they have been ecological disasters in Sabah. Across much of Malaysia plantations have replaced once thriving thick forests with monotonous ranks of cultivated palms where few wild species can survive. Some species like water monitor lizards,…Read More
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NAVIGATION APP COULD HELP SAVE WILDLIFE Hundreds upon hundreds of endangered animals perish on Malaysian roads each year. Thankfully, however, officials are doing something about it. In the works are more wildlife crossings in what is a welcome development. Such crossings alone, though, won’t solve the problem of animals ending up as roadkill while they try…Read More
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ACIDIFICATION MAKES CORALS MORE BRITTLE. IT MAY EVEN DISSOLVE THEM The world’s corals, Malaysia’s own stunning reefs included, are facing a host of environmental challenges to their continued survival as a result of manmade global warming and other harmful human activities. These include rising water temperatures, invasive forms of fishing like blast fishing, mass tourism and plastic pollution. Thenthere…
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DRONES COULD HELP SAVE SEA TURTLES Drones, acting as eyes in the sky, can help protect forests against illegal loggers. They can help keep better track of wildlife. And they can also be used to help save endangered species. Like turtles. Researchers at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom deployeddrones to keep a…
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A DUTCH SUPERMARKET GOES PLASTIC-FREE Much of plastic pollution comes from a simple source: plastic packaging. Plastic is a cheap and versatile substance that can be readily made and used. Then again, it can just as easily be dumped after a singe use, which has led to massive amounts of plastic waste befouling more and…Read More
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ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION BAUXITE MINING BAN IS EXTENDED FOR ANOTHER SIX MONTHS UNTIL NEXT JUNE June 30, 2018. That’s the new deadline until which the current moratorium on all bauxite mining in Pahang will...Read More
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DURIAN YIELDS IN KUANTAN REMAIN LOW. THE CULPRIT: BAUXITE MINING A ban on bauxite mining has been in force in Kuantan for almost two years, yet the ravages of...Read More
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