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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.
Posted on May 14th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS
A National Physical Plan for 2011-2030, was
prepared under President Mahinda Rajapaksa
and gazetted in 2011. When the Yahapalana puppet government took over in
2015, this plan was discarded. Yahapalana said that the 2011 plan was now
outdated as several key national and international developments have taken
place since then. The Yahapalana government of 2015 produced an updated
National Physical Plan 2017-2050 in 2019.
Yahapalana was a puppet government installed
by the USA. USA was hoping to take
over the island using Yahapalana . USA used the National Physical Plan to prepare
a military plan for USA bases in Sri Lanka .This plan was tucked away at item
Travel restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic have severely impacted the aviation industry. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) estimated airline losses globally at US$118.5 billion in 2020, a year when revenue shrank by 60.8% to US$328 billion, mirroring the 60.5% reduction in passenger numbers to 1.8 billion.
Airport Council International (ACI) likewise estimated a reduction in airport revenues globally for 2020 by US$111.8 billion or a 65.0% reduction in comparison to 2019. Last year was certainly the worst year in aviation history.
Looking forward, IATA expects continued losses with forecasted 2021 airline revenues globally growing only to US$459 billion (about RM1.9 trillion), well short of the US$838 billion achieved in 2019. Global passenger levels in the meantime are expected to grow to 2.8 billion, still 1.7 billion less than that recorded in 2019.
Published on: Thursday, April 08, 2021
By: Bernama
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The Selangor government’s proposal to degazette the North Kuala Langat Forest Reserve for development purposes 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 first of a series of four articles examines the important role of the peat swamp forest ecosystem.
Kuala Lumpur: Is there a possibility that Malaysia’s peat swamp forests – which are among the nation’s prized natural treasures that took thousands of years to form – may one day completely disappear from its map only to be devoured by rapid development?