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Malaysian forests have been disappearing for some time being replaced by urban development. Conservationalists and residents of Malaysia are not putting their feet down and developing a trust fund to buy up the land. The groups that are joining together include: 2 residential associations near Central Petaling Jaya city and the Malaysia chapter of the World Wide Fund for Nature. They will protect the land from urban development. The forests will also become national heritage sites.
photo credit: www.wikipedia.com ….the Malaysian capital
Not only is bad to take away the forest for environment reasons, but also landslides are believed to have been caused because of the development of the area.
I think that it is sad that these forests are being destroyed for urbanization. I don’t understand where people get the idea that they can just waltz in and destroy something, thinking that there will be no consequences. This time there have been cocnsequences environmentally and with the people. The article didn’t say that the landsides caused any damage, but I think that it is pretty safe to assume that some sort of damage was done to property, plus if anyone was injured or killed during the landslides.
http://www.enn.com/greenb.html?id=1319 Associate Press
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I thought that this was an interesting post. All year long we have been discussing in class how deforestation causes a ton of problems. Not only will landslides increase but also think of all of the displaced species that will lose their homes in the forest. I think that it will be very interesting to see if the Malaysian forests continue to be destroyed and the effects that that will have for the people of Malaysia.
Comment by mcrane April 9, 2007 @ 6:08 pm