POLLUTED: Kinabatangan River is hailed as the corridor of life.
KOTA KINABALU: WWF-Malaysia shares the public's concern about the perennial wickedness complaint in the Kinabatangan River, as highlighted in the internal media upon numerous occasions.
Hailed as the corridor of life, the Kinabatangan area is identified as home to some-more than 250 bird species, 50 reptile species, twenty reptile species, 1,056 plant class as well as multiform world-renowned charge sites such as the Lower Kinabatangan Segama Wetlands Ramsar Site.
However, the area is right away removing the name for its decline in water quality mainly due to pollution. Palm oil mills as well as oil palm plantations located in the area have been pronounced to be the categorical culprits.
WWF-Malaysia is of the view which it is right away timely to put in place the clever establishment to action as the lead body in protecting the biodiversity of Kinabatangan.
Presently, the series of sovereign as well as states agencies as well as internal NGOs address wickedness problems as they arise. The outcome is the rather ad hoc pick up of uncoordinated approaches, with substantial gaps as well as overlaps. This has led to some wickedness problems not being adequately as well as promptly dealt with.
"WWF-Malaysia has been implementing charge projects in the Kinabatangan area since late 1970s. A large-scale strategic programme to secure the long-term viability of wildlife populations in the area began in late 1998! as well as has one after another to the present. WWF-Malaysia exited the landscape in July 2011 so which the some-more permanent establishment could take over ensuring which charge as well as tolerable development takes place," pronounced the senior manager director/CEO of WWF-Malaysia, Dato' Dr Dionysius Sharma.
"The WWF-Malaysia's Kinabatangan Corridor of Life (KCol) group actively worked towards setting all the necessary 'enabling factors' to settle the system which would concede continuous protection of the area by lenient the stakeholders as well as internal communities so which they have been able to undertake tolerable conservation. This includes working with the Ministry of Tourism, Culture as well as Environment to rise the policy gauge for the area, with the idealisation idea of forming the KCol Management Committee (KMC), the body obliged towards handling the area holistically," he said.
The KMC needs clever political will from the state supervision to move it forward. Endorsement by the state cupboard will add faith to the work of the committee. The Ministry of Tourism, Culture as well as Environment is receiving the lead in preparing the Cabinet paper upon setting up the KMC.
Rightfully, the categorical cabinet would comprise of the sovereign as well as state agencies involved, tourism players, palm oil attention players, internal community as well as internal environmental NGOs. Comprising all pass stakeholders, KMC would be the categorical body as well as height which will assemble all stakeholders to work together to ensure which the area is well managed as well as coordinated.
Dr Dionysius Sharma states, "no singular entity can work alone to effectively solve the wickedness in the Kinabatangan River though with the clever executive body like KMC, you can grasp much." (theborneopost)
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