13/02/12 Biodiversity Site update
09/02/12 Biodiversity Site Progress Report
Bright and sunny days have been a little hard to come by lately but with the inter-monsoon period approaching, perhaps today heralds sunnier days ahead.The sky was a clear blue with nary a cloud in sight. As a light breeze danced around us, we made our way up to the biodiversity site. Even with the […]
19/01/12 Biodiversity Centre – Taking shape
Work at the Biodiversity centre is progressing well except for the occasional glitches. Now that the services of the tractor is unavailable, transport of materials from the Gunung Brinchang road to the site requires good timing and help from local folks. Once again a farmer friend came to our rescue with his ‘workhorse’ , a […]
Summary of Weather in the Cameron Highlands
By: Erica Jenkins ( ericasjenkins@gmail.com ) Miss Erica Jenkins is a marine biologist from Canada who volunteered with REACH from 10-14th January 2012.. During her short attachement she helped us with data entry and analysis of the weather pattern in Cameron Highlands. We would like to thank her for her much needed help. There are […]
08/01/12 Biodiversity Centre -Getting the foundations right: The 2nd Stage
Last Saturday, the 7th January 2012, a few of us went up to the Biodiversity site at Gunung Brinchang to get the foundations of the Nissen Huts right-literally. The rains had stopped for a couple of days and we decided to brave the steep road and drive up using the President’s four wheel vehicle. But […]
28/12/11 Building the Biodiversity Centre at Gunung Brinchang
The first stage – We knew that building a biodiversity centre up on the slopes of Gunung Brinchang was going to be difficult but never realised how difficult until work started early this month (we had initially decided that in order to save cost we would have to source for materials and hire skilled […]
27/10/11 Embassy of Finland has awarded a grant to REACH
We are very pleased to announce that the Embassy of Finland has awarded a grant to REACH for our biodiversity project. On the 18th of October 2011 , the Ambassador of Finland, H.E.Tapio Saarela and Mr Ramakrishnan, President of REACH signed the agreement. This project will cover a period of 2 years and involves research, […]
27/2/2009 – Changing face of Camerons
Full article in The STAR Online.
Sanitary Survey of Cameron Highlands Water Supply
This sanitary survey is a community service study carried out by the Institute of Environmental and Water Resource Management (IPASA) to assist Regional Environmental Awareness of Cameron Highlands (REACH) and is financed by the Research and Management Center (RMC) of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. -sanitary-survey-of-cameron-highalnds-water-supply