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Article: Think Green, Kurup Tells All Malaysians
11th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Monday August 10, 2009 By NIK NAIZI HUSIN KUALA TAHAN (Jerantut): Make caring for nature part of your lifestyle, said Natural Resources and Environment Deputy Minister Tan Sri Joseph Kurup. He said that environmental conservation was a collective responsibility, regardless of what race, religion or age group one belonged to. "Incorporate green living into your lifestyle by understanding the importance of nature and biodiversity," he said. Protecting nature: Kurup...
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Article: Boost For Agro-Tourism
11th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Tuesday August 11, 2009 By ANN TAN THE Penang Government is planning to turn the Relau Agriculture Centre into an agriculture technology complex which will benefit the agro-tourism or agro-recreational activities. State Agriculture, Agro-based Industries, Rural Development and Flood Mitigation Committee chairman Law Choo Kiang said the state economic planning unit has recently closed a ten-der which attracted various re-search firms bidding for the pro- ject. "We a...
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Article: Going Green
11th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Tuesday August 11, 2009 By IAN YEE WHEN R.AGE first met Yeong Yze Shiuan, she was desperately trying to start an official environmental society in Universiti Malaya (UM). Now she's organising a competition offering close to RM3,000 in prizes to create awareness about climate change. About six months ago, Shiuan told us about how sad she was that one of the country's premier public universities, which has courses related to the environment, didn't have a society to actively promot...
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Article: Take It Back
11th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Tuesday August 11, 2009 Foul play: Brazilian environmental officers inspecting some of the 41 containers coming from Britain which contain 1,600 tonnes of household waste imported into the country labelled as recyclable plastic. A SHIP loaded with 1,600 tonnes of rubbish set sail last Wednesday to return the rotting cargo to Britain from Brazil, where it had been shipped falsely declared as plastic for recycling. Eighty-nine containers packed with trash that incl...
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Article: Making A Splash
11th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Tuesday August 11, 2009 By SHARMILLA GANESAN Clean-up efforts are making Sungai Way cleaner and healthier not only for aquatic life, but for those living nearby too. Walking by the Sungai Way river in Selangor was an unpleasant experience less than two years ago. The water was "colourful", thanks to the numerous plastic bags, empty containers and other rubbish caught in it. Forget about seeing any aquatic life. You'd be lucky to see into the water at all. And to to...
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Article: Museum Wants Bukit Marak Saved
11th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Monday August 10, 2009 By SYED AZHAR KOTA BARU: The Kelantan Museum Corporation will investigate the extent of damage done to Bukit Marak following the indiscriminate excavation activities around the hill for the past four months. Its director Alimi Omar said he was not aware that the locals were cutting the hill and selling the earth. "l will get to the bottom of the matter," he said yesterday. Alimi was commenting on a report by The Star on Wednesday about the ex...
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Article: China's East Coast Battered By Typhoon
10th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Sunday August 9, 2009 BEIJING (Reuters) - Typhoon Morakot battered China's commercial east coast on Sunday, killing a child and flattening houses. Half a million people in coastal Fujian province were moved to safer parts ahead of the typhoon's arrival, along with a similar number in neighbouring Zhejiang, Xinhua reported. Rescuers try to reach a man who is stranded by floods as Typhoon Morakot approaches in Shanghai August 9, 2009. (REUTERS/Stringer) Up the...
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View: Haze Caused Simply By Greed
10th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Monday August 10, 2009I REFER to "Malaysia hopes Riau projects will tackle haze" (The Star, Aug 8). I think the haze problem has gone beyond the "hope" and the "pilot projects" stage. Most Malaysians have become very impatient with haze, and I believe nothing more than immediate action and solutions will satisfy them. We must begin with the right premise if we want to solve the problem. Haze is not caused by a natural phenomenon. So stop thinking that haze is caused by forest fires that start "n...
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Article: Kuching Braces For Water Rationing
10th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Monday August 10, 2009 By STEPHEN THEN MIRI: More areas in Sarawak are facing water rationing, including its capital city Kuching, unless there is heavy rain soon, said Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr George Chan Hong Nam. He said to date over 100,000 people were affected by water woes and the problem was getting more acute by the day. "The rural areas in Sarikei and Mukah divisions in central Sarawak were initially hit, but the problems has now spread to southern ...
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Article: Coming Clean
10th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Monday August 10, 2009 By HILARY CHIEW GEORGE TOWN: A mix of residential and commercial units flank Jones Road in downtown Penang. One block of double-storey commercial units contains an interior design outlet, a furniture gallery and a shoplot that has its aluminium shutters perennially semi-open. These three enjoined units served as the operations centre of one of the world's largest wildlife trafficking syndicates in the 1990s. The man behind the operation then w...
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Article: First Tarsier Study Begins
9th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Sunday August 9, 2009 By MUGUNTAN VANAR KOTA KINABALU: A young male tarsier named Jamil perched on a sapling at the Danau Girang Field Centre at the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary, not knowing it was becoming part of conservation history. The tarsier, a primate species, became the first of its kind to be radio collared in efforts by scientist to carry out a detailed study of the nocturnal activities of the animal. Tarsiers are characterised by eyes larger th...
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Article: 1,000ha Ablaze In Sarawak
9th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Sunday August 9, 2009MIRI: Wildfires are raging in more than 1,000ha of forests and peat land near the Sarawak-Brunei border, resulting in a heavy concentration of thick smoke and ash which is choking the people living in the Kuala Baram area. According to the Miri Fire and Rescue Department and local politicians, some 3,000ha have been burnt. Miri Division Fire Chief Christian Olas said the fires were most intense near the bridge linking Sarawak to Brunei. "More than 1,000ha in Kuala Baram dis...
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