NATO – No Action Talk Only
14/1/2014 – Palanivel: Illegal land clearing must stop TAKE A STAND and don’t do a flip-flop. Sequence of events First suggest to give TOL – 23/1/14 – TOL Will Curb Haphazard Cameron Highlands Land Clearing – Palanivel Receive negative feedback from environmentalist 27/1/14 – Environmental experts slam Camerons TOL proposal Next say give land grant […]
Record of Recyclables Collected in 2013
Making a Mockery of the System
What a mockery to enforcement in Cameron Highlands. The red sign that is supposed to stop illegal encroachment… Is this notice put here by PTDCH just for show or in other words to say money has changed hands. So do not disturb saya under “protection” This is Prof Maketab’s favourite pic “I like this very […]
Development ravages Malaysia’s ‘Little England’
Development ravages Malaysia’s ‘Little England’ January 08, 2014 On a Malaysian ridge-top, R. Ramakrishnan scans a rugged landscape famed in British colonial times as a fresh-aired slice of England in the tropics, but he sees a paradise lost. Illegal farms covered in unsightly plastic sheeting stretch into the distance along the steep slopes of the […]
Montane Birds of Cameron Highlands
Montane Birds of Cameron Highlands is the second book published by REACH. As with our first book ” Wild Orchids of Cameron Highlnads” the main objective of these books are to document the flora and fauna of the montane forests. Among the birds listed in the 2014 IUCN Red List of Threatened species ,The Malaysian […]
A Serious Matter made Trivial
Watch the answer given by the Cameron Highlands, MP who is the Minister of NRE to an important and pertinent question… Question : Bagaimana kita hendak mengimbangkan kesan alam sekitar ke atas industri pertanian dan pelancongan? Some of the MP’s answers transcribed… Saya sudah bincang dengan Menteri Pelancongan. Saya dan dia perlu pergi ke Cameron […]
The Land Conservation Act 1960
by Dr.Cheam May Choo 1st January 2014.- A very smart lawyer once told me,” The Land Conservation Act is a cobweb law “. But as I understand it, laws are laws, with or without their attending ‘cobwebs’ and until they are abolished by parliament they remain valid. I always felt that our forefathers were a […]
Corruption Rules in CH
ILLEGAL LAND-CLEARING : FOREST ENCROACHER CHARGED WITH OFFERING BRIBE TO LAND OFFICER – ntv7 At the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court, a forest encroacher pleaded not guilty to offering a bribe to an assistant land officer at the Cameron Highlands District and Land Office, Pahang last year. 43 year old Tan Meng Lee was charged with […]