April - 2018

CFS Roundtable

On the 30th of November 2017, Civil Society Organizations from all over Peninsular Malaysia with an interest in the Central Forest Spine (CFS) initiative convened for the first time to share issues faced in the implementation of the CFS, information on individual environmental CSO projects, the locations of such projects, and their contact persons. Aside from a map containing the locations of these CSO projects in the CFS (view in Interactive map: "NGO Projects" layer under C

Forest Degazettement in Perak (>2009) - NGO Records

On the 16th of April, Perak NGO Kumpulan Aktivis Sahabat Alam (KUASA) published a short, telling exposé with an image (below) bearing the title “HUTAN SIMPAN KEKAL (HSK) DI NEGERI PERAK YANG TELAH DIMANSUHKAN SEJAK TAHUN 2009 MENGIKUT REKOD NGO ALAM SEKITAR” (Eng: Degazetted Permanent Reserve Forests in Perak since 2009 According to Environmental NGO Records). We have computed the data in the image into a analysis-friendly format, and incorporated the data points into our Int