Degazetting a forest reserve ‘can take years’ 19 Apr 2021 / 08:40 H. Bernama
SHAH ALAM: While the fate of the Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve (KLNFR) is hanging by a thread, those opposed to its proposed degazettement can take heart in the knowledge that the process of withdrawing the protected status of a forest reserve “can take years” to complete.
As Selangor Forestry Department (JPNS) director Datuk Ahmad Fadzil Abdul Majid puts it, it is not that easy to degazette a permanent forest reserve (HSK).
Reiterating this point during an exclusive interview with Bernama at his office here recently, he said: “That’s the reality. due to the difficulties involved, degazettement processes (of HSK) in the past have taken years.”
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While the fate of the Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve (KLNFR) is hanging by a thread, those opposed to its proposed degazettement can take heart in the knowledge that the process of withdrawing the protected status of a forest reserve “can take years” to complete.
As Selangor Forestry Department (JPNS) director Ahmad Fadzil Abdul Majid puts it, it is not that easy to degazette a permanent forest reserve (HSK).
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Going that extra mile to save the Kuala Langat forest reserve
April 14, 2021
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The Selangor government’s proposal to degazette the Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve for development has caused much consternation among nature lovers and environmental health specialists who are concerned about the dwindling size of Malaysia’s peat swamp forests. This third of a series of four articles looks at the efforts of the local Orang Asli community and
environmentalists who have been painstakingly rehabilitating certain parts of the forest since 2015.
BANTING – Early every morning, Tonjoi Pipis gets ready for his “jaunt” in the jungle which is just a kilometre away from his dwelling at Kampung Orang Asli Pulau Kempas.
Going the extra mile for survival of Kuala Langat Forest Reserve 14 Apr 2021 / 10:23 H. Pix for representational purpose only.
BANTING: Early every morning, Tonjoi Pipis gets ready for his “jaunt” in the jungle which is just a kilometre away from his dwelling at Kampung Orang Asli Pulau Kempas.
But foraging forest products is not the only thing on this man’s mind – he is also there for another noble mission which is to restore parts of the peat swamp forest that were destroyed by a huge fire seven years ago.
Tonjoi, 51, is among the 2,000-odd Orang Asli of the Temuan ethnic clan living in four settlements on the south-western fringes of the Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve (KLNFR), which is located about 21.5 kilometres from Banting town and currently facing an uncertain future as the Selangor government is proposing to degazette it for development purposes.
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