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Month: December 2019

Month: December 2019

Killing more than rodents

admin December 10, 2019 0 Comments
A Facebook reader has expressed concern to Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) regarding the extensive use of rat poison in drains in the Little India area in Georgetown, Penang. It is indeed worrisome as the open drain system leads directly into the sea and after every heavy downpour the poison gets washed away and diluted in the sea. Rats are a human made problem and their populations are on the rise...
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SAM cautions against proceeding with exploration and mining of Rare-Earth Minerals

admin December 10, 2019 0 Comments
Despite the assurances by the Water, Land and Natural Resources Ministry’s (KATS) that the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between a China company and the Perak state government is for the exploration of rare earth minerals and not to mine them, Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) continues to have very serious concerns over the objective of such a venture. The Ministry issued a statement...
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CAP: Just leave the Botanic Gardens of Penang alone

admin December 10, 2019 0 Comments
The Consumers Association of Penang is appalled with the “Special Area Plan for Penang Botanic Gardens” which will basically bring in lots of visitors, have more man-made structures and ultimately may charge Penangites a fee to visit the gardens (clause IV, p5-4 which states “... arrange and control the admission of the public to the State Parks and to impose fees for their entry and...
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Stop Soil Erosion, Save Our Future

admin December 5, 2019 0 Comments
Today, the equivalent of one football pitch of soil is eroded every five seconds, and the planet is on a path that could lead to the degradation of more than 90 percent of all the Earth's soils by 2050, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In the 2015 Status of the World’s Soil Resources Report (FAO and ITPS, 2015), soil erosion was judged to be the...
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