Category Archives: Reforestation
Reforestation Resumes- University Kuala Lumpur 11th August 2023
Our reforestation programme resumed on the 11th of August 2023 with a small group of postgraduate students and their families from University Kuala Lumpur. This programme which is popular with students, had been put on hold earlier this year due to a lack of funding. The UniKL students planted 20 trees cum orchids and later took a nature walk around the biodiversity site. Mr Selvarajoo facilitated the event and briefed the participants on our environmental conservation efforts in Cameron Highlands.
Restorasi Hutan Mossy yang terosot di Gunung Brinchang Cameron Highlands
Program Penanaman pokok ini dilaksanakan dengan peruntukan dari My ICE dibawah ROS Registrar of Societies Malaysia. Peruntukan sebanyak RM10,000 diterima pada bulan April 2022 dan program ini bermula dari bulan Mei 2022 hingga bulan Ogos 2022. Tapak penanaman pokok adalah di Pusat Biodiversiti REACH di Gunung Brinchang yang berada 1600 hingga 1800 m dari paras laut.
Seramai 327 orang murid dan guru dari 9 buah sekolah Cameron Highlands mengambil bahagian . Jumlah anak pokok/okid yang ditanam adalah 330 batang dan meliputi pokok species tempatan saperti Geruk, Kelat,Ara, Medang Serai, Medang Payung, Eugenia, Rhododendron dan okid liar saperti Bulbophyllum, Eria, Cologyne, Flickingeria, Trichostasia, Phaius dan lain lain.
Setiap program bermula pada 9 pagi apabila murid murid tiba di tapak dengan pengangkutan kenderaan 4 wheel . Mereka akan diberi taklimat/arahan daripada pembimbing dan kepentingan hutan tanah tinggi ditekankan. Ini diikuti oleh aktiviti penanaman pokok dan pada 12 tengah hari murid murid dibawa balik ke pusat pengumpulan selepas minuman ringan.
Pehak REACH ingin mengucap beribuan terima kasih kepada ROS kerana memberi dana dan galakan; pejabat pendidikan, sekolah sekolah, cikgu-cikgu, persatuan ibu bapa yang memberi sokongan dan menaja makanan dan minuman ringan; dan sukarelawan kami, Encik Selvarajoo, Encik Kaliyannan , Encik Ramachandran, Encik Vijendran, Encik Kumaresan yang memberi bimbingan kepada anak murid.
Beerikut adalah senarai sekolah yang mengambil bahagian
25hb Mei 2022-Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Tamil SJKT Ringlet-39 peserta menanam 30 pokok
Kemaman Bitumen Company Sdn Bhd to the rescue yet again
Since 2001 when our society was first formed we have always been seeking funding for our various projects. Some years we strike lucky and have enough funds to conduct various projects including building infrastructure while some years we were ‘downright paupers’ with just enough to cover the operating and maintenance costs.
At the time when our environmental programmes with local schools were becoming a permanent fixture, we watched with apprehension as our funds gradually deplete. It was during this anxious period in 2018, that Kemaman Bitumen Company came to our aid and gave a grant of RM 10000 for our reforestation programmes.
Kemaman Bitumen has continued to believe and support us every year since then. Together with funding from ROS, these funds have helped us tide over the pandemic period relatively unscathed.
Some of the activities done with the latest Kemaman Bitumen Grant include
1. Reforestation on the 26th September 2021
Mr Sanjay, the CEO of Kemaman Bitumen and friends together with Reach members planted 20 trees at our biodiversity site in Gunung Brinchang.
2.Reforestation on the 19th February 2022 with CHERISH-Home for Children with special needs in Cameron Highlands
22 persons which included Cherish students, parents and teachers together with Reach members and volunteers participated. 25 saplings and orchids were planted.
3.Reforestation on the 18th May 2022 with Tadika Winlon, Tanah Rata
37 persons which included students, teachers , parents and volunteers participated. Event was facilitated by the President, V. President , Mr Kaliyannan, Mr Vijendran and Mr Kumaresan.
We the Reach committee would like to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to Kemaman Bitumen for supporting us these past few years.
MyICE Reforestation programme begins
Upon the advice of the Registrar of Societies ROS, we successfully applied for a RM 10 thousand MyICE grant which we received this April. (MyICE stands for Malaysian Incentive Community Empowerment by ROS which aims to do just that). This programme is for the restoration of the disturbed mossy forests of Gunung Brinchang and is a continuation of our reforestation efforts and environmental conservation in Cameron Highlands.
As with our previous programmes, permission was first sought from the local education department and the local schools then contacted.
The reforestation site is midway up Gunung Brinchang at an elevation of between 1600m to 1800 m above sea level. Participants will be brought up to the site with 4 wheel drive vehicles. Facilitators include Mr Selvarajoo, Mr Kaliyannan, Mr Kumaresan, Mr Vijendran and Mr Ramachandran.Programme usually starts at 8.30 am and ends by 12.30pm.
The MyICE programme began with a very enthusiastic team from SJKT Ringlet headed by Cikgu Anand on the 25th of May 2022. ( SJKT Sekolah Jenis Kebangssan Tamil Ringlet is a cluster school which has won numerous environmental awards). A total of 35 students 4 teachers and 6 volunteers participated and 30 saplings/orchids were planted. Coincidentally there were also a team from RTM a local TV station who came up to film REACH activities that day.
Mr K.Selvarajoo in action.
Registrar of Societies ROS lends a helping hand
Back in 2019, just a couple of months before the emergence of Covid-19, ROS approached us on the possibility of doing an environmental activity with REACH under their ROS-Care programme. Their reconnaissance team met up with our late president Mr Ramakrishnan and a site was eventually readied for them up at our biodiversity center in Gunung Brinchang.
Then in early 2020 the pandemic came and “All hell broke loose”. Our country was not spared and under the various lockdowns , outdoor activities came to a complete halt. As the ferocity of the Covid 19 pandemic diminished so did the movement control order. Countrywide lockdowns were eased and gradually some form of normalcy returned.
We began to do more work at our research center but activities with schools were still non-existent. It was only in late 2021 that our reforestation programme restarted with the assistance of ROS.
On the 26th of October 2021, the ROS team of 35 participants headed by Tuan Haji Mohd Nawardi Bin Saad, The Director General of the Registrar of Societies Malaysia came to our centre and planted trees.
They also did more than that. They advised us to apply for their MyICE grant which provides assistance to community based societies such as ours.
Our current president Mr Dilip Martin facilitated the event. He briefed ROS on our society’s objectives, achievements and unending struggles given the magnitude of the environmental problems here. The following year, which is this year 2022, we did as ROS advised. We applied for the MyICE grant and are pleased to inform that we were successful in obtaining the grant.
We the committee of REACH cannot thank the Registrar of Societies enough for lending us a helping hand just when we needed it most.
The Edge Environmental Program with Reach resumes
by cheam may choo
Updated 14th October 2019
On the morning of the 24th September 2019, I watched with a huge sigh of relief, the North-Easterly winds returning with a vengence. (Just as the meteorological department said it would) The clouds overhead were rushing across the skies,from the peaks of Gunung Berembun to the peaks of Gunung Jasar, chasing away the month long haze which had enveloped the mountains and valleys like mist turning acrid.
The reforestation activities were going on in full swing and the last thing we need is bad air. We had completed the programmes for a few schools but had to postpone one due to heavy rains and another due to haze.
The reforestation activities are
Date: 17th September 2019. SK Pos Terisu. 13 students and 3 teachers-completed
Date: 18th September 2019. SJKT Ladang Sg. Palas. 10 students and 3 teachers-completed. School gave a certificate of appreciation and a souvenir.
Date: 19th September 2019. SJKT Kuala Terla. 30 pax-postponed to the 2nd of October due to haze
Date: 20th September 2019. SJKC Tanah Rata 24 students and 2 teachers-partially done, remaining programme postponed due to rains.
Date: 24th September 2019. SJKC Kuala Terla. 27 students and 3 teachers. This school gave us a certificate of appreciation too and a box of local vegetables, as fresh as one can get!. SJKC Kuala Terla is a cluster school of excellence.
Date: 25th September 2019. SJKC Trinkap . 33 students and 3 teachers. Completed.
Date: 26th September 2019. SJKC Cameron. 23 students and 2 teachers. Completed
Date: 27th September 2019. SJKC Kg Raja . 35 students and 4 teachers. Completed.
Date: 30th September 2019. SJKC Bertam Valley. 30 students and 3 teachers. Completed. This is also a cluster school of excellence.
Date: 2nd October 2019-SJKT Kuala Terla. 27 students and 3 teachers.Completed
Date: 3rd October 2019-SK Convent. 22 students and 2 teachers. Completed. A cluster school of excellence
Date: 4th October 2019. SJKC Brinchang . 30 students and 3 teachers.Completed
Date : 7th October 2019. SK Lemoi. 12 students and 2 teachers.Completed
Date: 8th October 2019. SJKT Blue Valley. 31 students and 8 teachers.Completed
Date: 9th October 2019. SJKC Tanah Rata. 24 students and 2 teachers. Completed
Date 10th October 2019.SK Ringlet.27 students and 3 teachers. Completed
Date 11th October 2019 SK Brinchang.30 students and 3 teachers.Completed
With the beautiful weather here, we hope the remaining primary schools will join as most students who participated found it fun and interesting. Pictures will be uploaded from time to time.
We are extremely grateful to the Edge Education Fund for making this possible.