Just-hatched baby turtles placed in a pool at the Segari Conservation and Information Centre.
THE Perak government should expedite plans to gazette the turtle-landing site in Segari, Manjung as a protected area, environmentalists say.
Non-governmental organisation Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) field officer Meor Razak Meor Abdul Rahman said environmental groups have been pushing for the coastal area from Pantai Pasir Panjang to Tanjung Hantu – the main turtle-landing site in Perak – to be gazetted since 2013.
SAM, he said, has been organising activities such as beach cleaning, release of turtle hatchlings as well as planting of ambong-ambong (sea lettuce) saplings to create awareness of the site’s importance over the past eight years.
The waterfall in the Segari Melintang Forest as it was before (left) and what it looks like now. - Pix courtesy of Rakan Segari
IPOH (Bernama): Environmental destruction at the Segari Melintang Forest Reserve, Manjung is believed to be due to a quarry project at the site.
Environment and Water Minister, Datuk Seri Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man said this was based on initial investigation conducted by the Perak Department of Environment (DOE) at the forest reserve on Monday (Jan 18) and Tuesday (Jan 19). The investigation also found six violations of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) approval conditions involving earthworks carried out without following the Land-Disturbing Pollution Prevention and Mitigation Measures (LD-P2M2), he tweeted on Wednesday (Jan 20).
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The waterfall in the Segari Melintang Forest as it was before (left) and what it looks like now. - Pix courtesy of Rakan Segari
IPOH: Environmental activist group Aktivis Sahabat Alam (Kuasa) is aghast that a once-pristine waterfall in Teluk Sera, Manjung, has been polluted.
Kuasa vice-chairman Noor Ismady Ahmad Radzuan said the site, located in the Segari Melintang Forest Reserve, was now filled with debris from soil erosion. I came across it on Thursday (Jan 14) when surveying some locations near the area for a mangrove tree-planting programme. The waterfall was still okay when I was there in early December last year, he said when contacted.