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Published 1 Aug 2016
Malaysia’s Wildlife Conservation Act needs More Hiss and Snarl
Source: https://cleanmalaysia.com/2016/07/31/malaysias-wildlife-conservation-act-needs-hiss-snarl/
Malaysia’s Wildlife Conservation Act 2010 is tough on lawbreakers but not tough enough. In order for the law to serve as more of a deterrent to poachers and wildlife traffickers, it will need to have harsher penalties for both.
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[…] the Act should be amended to cover the online sale of protected animals, a practice that has reached epidemic proportions across Malaysia.
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Any law, no matter how comprehensive, is nothing but words on paper unless it is rigorously enforced. And often it’s precisely enforcement of wildlife laws that has been found wanting in Malaysia. In 2013, for instance, a local man broke the Wildlife Conservation Act 2010 by being found in possession of eight tiger pelts and 22 bags of tiger bones in his house in Peninsular Malaysia. Yet he was sentenced to a mere year in prison and a fine of MR200,000.
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Published 2 Jun 2016
One in 10 Malaysian Rivers is Badly Polluted
Source: http://cleanmalaysia.com/2016/05/29/one-in-10-malaysian-rivers-is-badly-polluted/
Forty-three. That’s how many rivers in Malaysia are badly polluted.
[…] Another 186 have been classified as somewhat polluted, which means you probably would not want to drink from them or even take a dip in them.
The rest of the country’s rivers, or 244, are considered clean, according to the Department of Environment at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
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Published 2 Jun 2016
Save the Sun Bears from the Miri Crocodile Farm
Source: http://cleanmalaysia.com/2016/06/01/save-the-sun-bears-from-the-miri-crocodile-farm/
Sun bears are listed as a totally protected species in Appendix I of CITES, while the Sarawak Wild Life Protection Ordinance 1998 states that Appendix I animals “shall (not) be reared, kept, grown or cultivated in any commercial wild life farm.” So why has MCF got away with keeping and abusing the sun bears all these years?
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Published 12 May 2016
The Fiery Peats of Haze in Southeast Asia
Source: http://cleanmalaysia.com/2016/05/10/the-fiery-peats-of-haze-in-southeast-asia/
Haze is primarily caused by thick smoke, produced by peatfires, stemming from disturbances in the natural peatland conditions. The solution then is deceptively simple: hands off the peatlands! And indeed, most countries in the region that experience peatfires do have policies restricting peatland use.
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Indeed, there are alternative economic uses for peatlands that would not disturb its natural conditions, like pineapple and fish farming, or even incentivizing carbon sequestration. Unfortunately, at the moment, industries like palm oil and pulp and paper are seen to be more lucrative, and hence more able to procure developmental rights to peatlands.
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Published 10 May 2016
‘Please Protect Our Forests!’ Indigenous Penans Plead
Source: http://cleanmalaysia.com/2016/05/07/please-protect-our-forests-indigenous-penans-plead/
Indigenous Penan communities in Sarawak are mad at the continued destruction of their ancestral forests and they won’t be taking it any more. The Penans, who have traditionally been semi-nomadic forest-dwellers, want all logging stopped in the remote Upper Baram region of Sarawak and the area declared a protected national park.
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Time is fast running out on Upper Baram’s remaining forests […] “In 2010, the Ba Jawi area was still covered with pristine primary forest, while in 2015 – after five years of logging – the area is severely degraded and the biological diversity has been reduced considerably. Only a few areas in the Selungo area remain unlogged today and are under immediate threat of being logged in the coming months.”
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Published 21 Apr 2016
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Published 20 Apr 2016
The Priceless Riches of Malaysia
Source: http://cleanmalaysia.com/2016/04/19/the-priceless-riches-of-malaysia/
Take a trip in the rainforests of Sabah, and what you effectively do is to go on a bit of time travel. These forests are among the oldest in the world and were already here 140 million years ago when dinosaurs still ruled the Earth. It’s ironic then, is it not, that these ancient forests have survived intact for tens of millions of years only to end up facing an existential threat from a single species: us.
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