Category Archives: Reforestation
Reforestation and Biodiversity Activities for the year 2013
Summary of reforestation and biodiversity activities for 2013 showing the facilitators involved and the participating groups
Reforestation Activities for the year 2012
Summary of reforestation and biodiversity activities for 2013 showing the facilitators involved and the participating groups
Reforestation on the 16th December 2012
16th December 2012
In the small town of Cameron Highlands, deforestation is everywhere. On the 12th of December 2012, 150 volunteers from the forestry department and R.E.A.C.H headed to Sungai Pauh to give life to an area which was now as empty as a man’s shaven head. I myself took part in this activity as a volunteer of R.E.A.C.H. Upon arriving at the site, we split up into groups and were trailing down slopes of 45 degrees while planting saplings at certain sites. Minutes and hours passed by as we planted over a hundred saplings in that one area. Once at the bottom, I noticed that we could have done better. The group consisted of too many people. An exact figure would be hard to give but one in every 7 saplings or so would be stepped on as the trail sloped downwards. Adding on to that would be the inability for a very small fraction of the people to realize that “the plant should be in the soil and not on the surface”. A flaw on its own is negligible but a slew of them would affect the results adversely. In conclusion, the overall success of this reforestation project was average. A project of this scale should have been taken more seriously but as a wise man once said “It’s still better than not trying” and I still believe that this is a stepping stone for a better Cameron Highlands.
By Tristan
Mossy Forest Education Tour at Reforestation for Maybank Staff and family on the 16th March 2014
16th March 2014- Our mossy forest education tours are also open to local residents and Cameron Highlands Maybank staff,family and friends make a trip on the 16th March 2014. It was a cold morning with mist enveloping them as they make a trip up the forests on the peak of Gunung Brinchang,truly a cloud forest. They then continued to our biodiveristy site to do replanting with a light home cooked lunch in between. A very cold and wet day indeed.
Mossy Forest Tours and Reforestation for SKJC Kea Farm and SK Brinchang
31st October 2013- 2 schools joined the mossy forest tours today, SKJC Kea Farm and SK Brinchang.As with the other groups the kids were delighted to be out in the sun and cool mountain air.
Mossy Forest Education Tour and Reforestation on the 4th October 2013
4th October 2013-It came as a bit of a surprise to us when SJKT Boh 2 ( Boh 2 Tamil Primary School) was amongst the 1st few schools to voice interest in joining our Mossy Forest Education Tours ( sponsored by funds from The Embassy of Finland) . This is a school with predominantly Orang Asli children (indigenous people) from the village of Panggen. One would have thought that Orang Asli kids with the jungles of Cameron Highlands as their playground would have already seen the mossy forests. We were wrong. Perhaps we should not have been surprised given what we were told some months back when we were visiting the village of Post Trisu. An Orang Asli father actually said,”Baik juga ada program di Sungai Wi kerana anak-anak saya belum pernah tenguk sungai bersih” ” It is good that you are conducting programmes at Sungai Wi as my children have not seen clean rivers before.” That was a real shocker! That the environment around many of the Orang Asli villages are so degraded that not even one clean river can be found in their vicinity. This innocuous statement from an Orang Asli father sums it all.
