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PENCINTA ALAM NEWSLETTER of the MALAYSIAN NATURE SOCIETY December 2018 2 3 SHOUT out to NATURE GUIDES’ PENCINTA ALAM NEWSLETTER OF THE MALAYSIAN NATURE SOCIETY www.mns.my www.mns.my December 2018 2 3 SHOUT OUT TO NATURE GUIDES’ We would like to thank all ourVOLUNTEERS!!!volunteers who had 1 Chan Bee Leng (Mary) volunteered their time and energy during this record- 2 Chan Kok Aik (John) breaking year of guiding a total of 701 participants 3 Christy Lee Beng Choo where 641 were students and 60 were walk-ins! We 4 Chuah Lay Theng (Joyces) apologize for making you work unexpectantly hard under 5 Harris Raj Kumar the hot sun as the number of students were much more 6 Kayal Vili a/p Keresnan than anticipated. You persevered and even though this is 7 Kushaal A/L Selvarajah the first time for some, all of you did great! 8 Lim Phui Ying (Mary) 9 Lim Poh Lin Hope that you didn’t get too annoyed with us (or more 10 Maimunah Mohd Noor (Muna) like of the walking blue thesaurus…) and will come back 11 Ng Geok Chunn to join us in next year’s Festival of Wings again or see you in the Raptor Watch 2019 which event days will be 12 Ng Jen Ying on 9-10th March 2019. It’s going to be BIG to celebrate 13 Ng Sher Ying the event’s 20th Anniversary! 14 Norazmir Bin Mustapha (Azmir) 15 Nuralisya Hakim Boey The AMAZING people we had the pleasure guiding with 16 Nursyamiera Binti Ismail were: 17 Pasupathy Jayaraj (Pasu) 18 Rasyidah Binti Abdul Razak 19 Siti Khadijah Binti Nekmat 20 Talitha Supramani 21 Zulkepli bin Hussin 4 More photos at https://www.facebook.com/groups/mnsselangorbranchnatureguides/ 5 More photos at https://www.facebook.com/groups/mnsselangorbranchnatureguides/ 6 On behalf of Angeline Siok Coordinator 7 ECO KIDS Let’s Eco-Wrap Presents! Contributed by Ng Zhang En Christmas is around the corner. Some of you may be giving presents during this time of the year. From presents with colourful wrapping paper to presents with lace and ribbons, most of them get thrown away into our landfill. Our usage of wrapping paper equates to the loss of 100,000 trees every year. To reduce our carbon footprint but also spread the Christmas cheer, here are 7 bizarre eco friendly ways to wrap your gift for your loved ones this season! 1.Newspaper. Continued on next page ... 8 …..continued from previous page ECO KIDS 2.Cloth Furoshiki are a type of traditional Japanese wrapping cloth traditionally used to transport clothes, gifts, or other goods. Attached here is a picture of ways to wrap your gift the Japanese style! Photo credit: 1 Million Women Continued on next page ... 9 …..continued from previous page ECO KIDS 3. Glass Jars The presents wrapped with leaves stand out Some presents look the best not wrapped! the most under the Christmas tree! Don’t be put off by the inconvenience on getting the leaves, it is really worth it! 5. Leaves 4.Potato Chip Bags! An idea to amaze the receiver of your gift! Added with a finishing touch of a potato chip bag ribbon! 10 …..continued from previous page ECO KIDS 6. Magazines 7. Used exercise books Have loads of finished and unwanted exercise books at home? The brown cover can be a stylish gift wrap with your personal touch of doodling. 11 WONG EE LYNN, COORDINATOR, GREEN LIVING SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP, LETTER TO THE EDITOR MALAYSIAN NATURE SOCIETY HILL SLOPE DEVELOPMENT COMES WITH MANY ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS The Bukit Kukus landslide tragedy is a grim Blaming a massive landslide on rainy reminder that hill slope development comes with weather is irresponsible. Clearly the tragedy many environmental and safety risks. Hill slope is not caused by merely rain and gravity, development causes erosion, habitat loss and air, but corruption, apathy, irresponsibility and water and noise pollution. It threatens wildlife, a willingness to cut corners and create forests, water security, and soil integrity and wiggle room where there should be none. stability. Intact land does not just spontaneously break off and descend on homes and roads The Malaysian Cabinet had already drawn up a set of guidelines in 2009 prohibiting development on, when saturated with rain water. If that inter alia, slopes exceeding 35 degrees, and slopes were the case, then entire mountain ranges between 15-35 degrees showing signs of soil would be flattened annually during the instability, erosion or other vulnerabilities. The monsoon season. theedgemarket.com Bukit Kukus tragedy involved an elevated road on a hill slope with a gradient reported to be 60-90 The authorities are not unaware of the risks degrees. arising from, or the laws and guidelines in place in relation to, hill slope development. The guidelines include the National Slope Master Plan 2009 – 2023 issued by the Public Works Department, while the laws include the Land Conservation Act 1960, Environmental Quality Act 1974, Town and Country Planning Act 1976, and Street, Drainage and Building Act 1974. This clearly shows that there is no shortage of studies, guidelines, regulations and laws in Malaysia pertaining to hill slope development. What is lacking is the political will to enforce these laws and guidelines and to ensure the safety of people and the environment or the sustainability of the project. freemalaysiatoday.com Continued on next page ... 12 LETTER TO THE EDITOR …..continued from previous page HILL SLOPE DEVELOPMENT COMES WITH MANY ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS Fatal landslides in Malaysia keep edisiviral.com No development or construction recurring because local and state activity should ever take place at a site authorities are willing to approve in which the state and local authorities development projects on hill slopes, are unable to guarantee full especially when given the assurance that compliance with safety guidelines or mitigation measures, no matter how criteria. The profits to be gained from minimal and negligible, would be taken. authorizing hill slope development However, no retaining wall or terrace can work are paid for by construction mitigate the adverse effects of workers and local residents with their deforestation, destruction of watershed safety and lives. Wildlife, rivers, forests areas, overdevelopment and mining, and other natural entities pay the price quarrying and construction activities near with their existence. slopes. There must be a nationwide The Highland Towers collapse in 1993, moratorium on all hill slope Bukit Antarabangsa landslide in 2008, development. Existing projects must Hulu Langat landslide in 2011 and be reviewed, mitigation measures Tanjung Bungah landslide in 2017 all carried out and laws strictly and precede this latest incident, but decision- transparently enforced. The parties makers responded with words of regret responsible for this fatal landslide and sympathy when strong policies and must be held to account. Previously strict enforcement would have been forested areas that had been cleared more effective and would have prevented for hill slope development must be further tragedies. A prohibition on hill rehabilitated. The cost of hill slope slope development on slopes exceeding a development on the environment and certain gradient should be treated as communities is simply too high to be such, and not merely as a temporary justified any longer. freeze on hill slope development until public outrage simmers down. 13 December 2018 All events times and venues are correct at time of printing. For latest updates, contact the Special Interest Group or check the MNS Calendar of Activities website regularly. BookingBRIEF priority BIO will FOR be givenTHE to SPEAKER the organizing DOMINIC branch‘s members O’SULLIVAN unless stated otherwise Semi-retired from a career in hospital management, Dominic has been resident in Malaysia now for almost two years. From an early age, he has had a passion for nature and he went on to study for a BSc(Hons) FLORA GROUP, SELANGOR BRANCH Zoology – the best three years of his life! Since settling in KL, he is now a very active member of MNS giving Public Talk - Fungi – Friends or Foes of the Forest? time regularly to supporting the UCF Nursery, Flora SIG, and activities by DOMINIC O’SULLIVAN organized at the NEC at FRIM. Determined to make a difference, he is 1 December 2018 also hoping to become a co-opted member of Council. He has also Time:9.30 am, Place: Auditorium, MNS HQ JKR 641, Jalan Kelantan, supported the Tasikoki Wildlife Rescue & Education Centre in North Bukit Persekutuan 50480 Kuala Lumpur Sulawesi, helping students from schools and universities across the globe to understand the state of the planet, deforestation, pollution, and the horrors of the Illegal Wildlife Trade. You are invited to attend an upcoming talk hosted by Flora SIG, in the month of December. He believes strongly that everyone has a responsibility to tackle Greed, Ignorance and Indifference, and in the important role of Education in Since arriving in Malaysia nearly two years ago, Dominic has discovered this context. To this end, he is avidly supporting educational activities growing interest in the flora of the rainforest. He has a degree in Zoology, but in a wide range of settings, including school visits to the Nursery and his passion for animals has taken a step back as he has realized the complexity UCF, weekend groups to NEC, and talks through the Flora SIG – that is and vulnerability of the rainforest ecosystem on which all animal depends. when he is not getting his hands dirty or his feet wet! In the talk, he looks at the world of Fungi – a group often overlooked and yet He assures me that, while he may not be an expert in many of the so instrumental in the creation and sustainability of forests in every context. From their early evolution as among the first organisms to exist out of the areas that he will be presenting, he is enjoying expanding his water, he looks at how this was achieved and the literally ground-breaking knowledge base which he is happy to share with any audience willing adaptations the fungi used to achieve this.
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