Category Archives: Mossy Forest Visits and Reforestation
Mossy Forest Tours and Reforestation Continues for our local kids -2015
30th July 2015
25 Standard 5 students from SJK(C) Brinchang were the first in Cameron Highlands this year to join in REACH’s reforestation at our Bio-Diversity Centre program. Accompanied by two teachers and three REACH volunteers: Elucia, Geogina and myself, we squashed ourselves into three 4WD vehicles and hit the road at approximately 9.15am.
Our first stop was the famous Mossy Forest at G. Brinchang. En route even though it was a very bumpy ride, we managed to catch a glimpse of a large niltava and its mate as well as a Fire tufted barbet. The rolling green hills of tea were also a fine sight to behold as we made our way up the mountain.
After an educational briefing session by our guide, Satya, who shared a little of his store of knowledge of the thousands of species of herbs and fungi in Cameron Highlands, we entered the mossy forest to take a look for ourselves the fabled beauty of the forests of our own hometown.
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.
