Recently, three e-petition emails reached my inbox.
The first one was about a petition against the continued logging and poaching of Temengor Forest Reserve which shares the boundary with the Royal Belum State Park. The Belum- Temengor forested area sits in the north of Perak. It has more hornbill species than Sarawak plus probably holds the world record of having the most number of hornbills in flight recorded in a single evening. Over 2000 hornbills were sighted flying over the area – from Belum to Temengor in one evening sometime in November of 1993. I was there 3 months before and I will never forget the sight of over 160 hornbills flying over Sg Halong at the Temengor area and will always regret that I should have been there 3 months later!
So, I signed the petition in an instant.
The second one was about saving the Malaysian rainforest. In conjunction with Earth Day, someone wanted to send another message to the government of the day that we should treasure and not destroy our biodiversity. This was another easy one, so signed also within an instant.
Then the third one came and I signed it even before I finished reading it. It was a petition against the construction of the Kuala Lumpur Outer Ring Road. KLORR. This is closer to home, Tanarimba that is. Google it or check it out at MPAJ office in Pandan Indah. The KLORR will be constructed to surround KL and will cut across the Gombak Forest Reserve which separates Klang Gates Ridge (Bukit Tabur) and Tanarimba! I fear it might even be built within sling shot distance to Tanarimba. I do hope I’m wrong. In any case, it will dissect the already depleted forest reserves in Selangor and Pahang and to me there are less ecologically-destructive ways to reduce traffic congestion in the city. So, if I were you, I would sign it too before you finish reading this article. We know how special Tanarimba is to us. The Klang Gates Ridge which is experiencing tremendous pressure from housing developments creeping up to its feet, is one of the largest, if not the largest, single standing karst formation of its sort in the world! If you haven’t climbed it yet, you should and if you walk in a straight line towards Pahang, you will probably end up in your own doorstep in Tanarimba within a day, not more.
So, please click underneath and do the right thing.
No to KLORR
http://www.petitiononline.com/KLORR/petition.html
No to destruction of Malaysian rainforest
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/save-peninsular-malaysia-rainforest/
No to logging and poaching in Belum- Temengor Forest Area
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/savetemengor2010
