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Tasik Chini s Unesco status under review
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Tasik Chini s status as a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) Biosphere Reserve is up for a periodic review and the government will have slightly more than a year to act on recommendations to maintain its status.
Unesco, through its Media Services Unit, told
Malaysiakini a list of preliminary recommendations was shared with the relevant Malaysian authorities on May 18. The periodic review of Tasik Chini Biosphere Reserve is indeed ongoing. A report was examined by.
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The Chini Lake, more famous as Tasik Chini, in Pahang, was declared a United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Biosphere Reserve in 2009. However, its status could be under threat.
According to a Malaysiakini report, a review of Pahang s Tasik Chini will be conducted in the following months regarding its status as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.
The review, which is periodic every 10 years, will see the global organisation recommend actions to be taken, of which authorities will have until September 2022 to implement, or risk losing the certification.
COMMENT | Transparency needed for environment-related projects
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In early June, it was reported that the Pahang government had approved mining operations in the vicinity of Tasik Chini, Pekan, the second-largest natural lake in Peninsular Malaysia.
The mining project, which covers the size of approximately 60 football fields, is located around 3km from the Unesco Biosphere Reserve site.
Tasik Chini itself has also been plagued with pollution issues stemming from mining and logging in recent years.
Recently, another mining project
seeking approval from the Environment Department has come to light, this time in Jerantut, Pahang. The project site, which is in the middle of the Som Forest Reserve, covers an area the size of 113 football fields.
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