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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Edge Environmental Education for Students at the Mossy Forests of Cameron Highlands 2018/2019 concludes
by Cheam May Choo We are pleased to report that this project which was funded by a grant from the Edge Kuala Lumpur Rat Race 2018 was successfully carried out from April 2019 to October 2019. The Edge Education Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the Edge Media Group. The foundation’s mission is to foster, […]
Kerjasama REACH dengan Jabatan Meteorologi Malaysia (Met Malaysia).
oleh Cheam May Choo Pada tahun 2016 , Jabatan Meteorologi Malaysia telah menandatangani Memorandum Persefahaman ( MOU) bersama REACH untuk kerjasama dalam bidang penyelidikan dan pemonitoran cuaca dan komposisi atmosfera di Pusat Biodiversiti REACH di Gunung Brinchang. MOU ini adalah untuk tempoh 5 tahun. Segala hasil penyelidikan akan dikongsi bersama Met Malaysia dan REACH. Sebuah […]
More Collaboration with the Meteorological Department
by Cheam May Choo On the 29th February 2020, 4 staff members from the Meteorological Department visited Bio D center to confirm that the air pollution passive sampler is functioning well. Together with another 4 staff members from the Chemistry Department and 2 Japanese experts from Asia Centre for Air Pollution Research Japan ( ACAP), […]
Preparing organic nutrients for biodynamic farming
by Cheam May Choo At REACH biodiversity site Mr Ng Tien Khuan continues to make Biodynamic soil preparation. Biodynamic farming is a type of organic farming popularised in Australia using natural nutrients. The organic preparation is put into cow horns and buried in the soil for a few months before it is ready to be […]
Our mini weather station continues to grow
by Cheam May Choo Back in October 2016 a memorandum of understanding was signed with the Meteorological Department of Malaysia to cooperate in the development and support of research in Climate Monitoring and Atmospheric composition at the Biodiversity Centre in Gunung Brinchang. It would be for a period of 5 years. The findings would be shared […]
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 […]