YSD Reforestation | 17-July-2024
On July 17&18, 2024, a collaborative program involving REACH, Yayasan Sime Darby, the Cameron Highlands District Forestry Department, Majlis Biodiversity Pahang, Perhilitan Pahang, Majlis Daerah Cameron Highlands, Pelindung, and students from SK Terisu successfully conducted a forest tree planting event at the Batu Ganggan Forest Reserve, Cameron Highlands. During the event, 1,350 forest tree saplings […]
CIMB Foundation awards grant to REACH for reforestation
We are pleased to inform that CIMB Foundation has awarded a grant of RM 83000 to Reach in September 2023. This would be the 3rd time that CIMB has supported our efforts since Reach was founded. CIMB first programme with us was ” ReAct- Trash is Cash” project involving Recycling activities with local schools. Subsequently […]
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 […]
Kemaman Bitumen Grant 2021/2022-Summary
In 2021 we received a grant of RM10,000 from Kemaman Bitumen and similar to the 2 previous grants that we received from them, we used this fund for our conservation work in the cloud forests of Cameron Highlands. Our reforestation work were as follows: 26/9/21 Kemaman group/volunteers of 14 pax planted 20 trees/orchids 19/2/22 Cherish […]
BORA grant 2021/2022-Report
BORA (Borneo Rhino Alliance) is an NGO based in Sabah and works towards preventing the extinction of endangered species in Malaysia. In September 2021, BORA won the inaugural The Hornbill Award competition organised by Climate Governance Malaysia and proceeded to graciously shared some of its winnings with the other 5 finalists, REACH included. The following […]
MyICE Reforestation programme 2022 concludes
This reforestation programme for the restoration of disturbed mossy forests in Gunung Brinchang was made possible with a grant of RM 10,000 from the Registrar of Societies ROS under their MyIce program. We received the grant in April 2022 and started the project in May 2022 till August 2022.The reforestation site is midway up Gunung […]
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 […]