FMT LETTER
From JC Tansen, around e-mail
While Malaysia has enjoyed considerable rates of mercantile expansion over a final 40 years, there has been substantial, irreparable as well as avoidable detriment of her healthy capital. Recognised as a single of twelve countries sanctified with mega biodiversity, Malaysia has worry safeguarding its remaining wildlife. If timberland cover is about 60 %, it is interjection to FAO's (Food as well as Agriculture Organisation) generous clarification of a "forest" land with at least 10% of tree climax cover, which can include forestry-type plantations such as rubber wood.
Our forests degraded by logging as well as replaced by plantations, fragmented by roads, as well as raided frequen! tly by p oachers hired by syndicates harbour alarmingly disappearing numbers of wildlife. In a IUCN's (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List, Malaysia has a world's third top number of plants as well as animals in jeopardy with extinction. The list warns of a disappearance of a tiger, sambar deer, rhinoceros, elephant, tapir, sunbear, Orang Utan, pangolin, hawksbill as well as leatherback turtles, between others, if business-as-usual continues as well as it does. In a traffic powered by demand from China, Vietnam as well as Thailand, Malaysia has emerged as a major heart in a bootlegging of wildlife as well as wildlife products. To stop a demand as well as a trade, Malaysia needs help.
Lowland forests of tall worth have been all but mislaid to plantations as well as civic development. More forests as well as habitats have been being mislaid to oil palm, latex timber clones as well as mega projects to supply energy or water, a development mostly driven by t! op-down decision-makers working in unison as well as without clarity with private zone players. In this regard, Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud's uncontrolled acclimatisation of peat swamp forests in to oil palm plantations, his "necklace" of twelve hydro-electric mega projects as well as concessions for high-impact logging (to transparent a approach for plantations) all of which simultaneously dispossess native people of their prevalent lands show careless abandon. The judiciary as well as mainstream media do not enjoy sufficient autonomy to fulfil their check-and-balance roles. To stop Taib, Malaysia needs help.
Meanwhile, Malaysian logging as well as oil palm companies take their plunder-for-profit expertise to countries around a world. To remodel these companies, Malaysia needs help.
Domestic sewage, rubbish from stock as well as farms, discharges from agro-based as well as other industries, silt from earthworks as well as logging roads, as well as leachate from dumps pollute rivers as well as internal waters. Marine waters have been likewise affected. Clearing mangroves, overfishing, diving as well as snorkelling hasten a detriment of coral reefs. Trawlers versed with nets hundreds of metres prolonged fish illegally in coastal waters. Our fish stock has declined by 90% since a 70s. To save our corals as well as fish, Malaysia needs help.
The peculiarity of our civic sourroundings is a small better. Foreign workers collect as well as draw up of a garbage, brush drains as well as retrieve leaves as well as litter from open areas to assistance us. There have been few durations of haze caused by distant timberland clearing but air peculiarity is in all acceptable, interjection in great measure to abundant sleet from a heave! ns. Urba n green lungs, essential for air peculiarity as well as for aesthetics as well as devout well-being, tarry in ever-diminishing pockets in a face of a ever-present pressures from pesky developers as well as a surging population. Spatial formulation has ! since ap proach to civic stretch as well as a treacherous tangle of tolled highways. If open transport infrastructure is second rate, it serves as a hold up await to a local automobile attention by putting jot down numbers of cars on a road.
Land, water, fauna as well as flora humour really bad from slack coercion of existent regulations. Still, most problems begin "upstream". Making decisions which favour exile mercantile development reflects small or no high regard of a ecosystems as well as a worth of nutritious their services. Poor coordination as well as non-interaction between as well most supervision agencies vested with bits of authority outcome in mercantile formulation decisions which concede a environment. Much of this is facilitated by a open as well as leaders in all walks of hold up who select to sojourn mostly unaware of a declining paradise. To surprise as well as engage them, Malaysia needs help.
Yes, Malaysia needs assistance large time.
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