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Support for Bar Council’s call for the government to protect Orang Asli customary land rights

admin February 28, 2018 0 Comments

SAM would like to voice our support for the statement from the Malaysian Bar Council on February 26 for federal and state governments to take all the necessary actions to protect the Orang Asli customary land rights. The statement illustrates the need for our policymakers to look at the law in its entirety. The law does not only comprise statutory law, it also includes common law, customs and...

Villagers Worried Over Sand Dredging Operation in Sedim, Baling, Kedah

admin February 12, 2018 0 Comments

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) is very concerned about the sand dredging operations in Kampung Pekan Sedim and Kampung Bukit Rawa, Sedim, in the district of Baling, Kedah, of which a large number of villagers here are worried. Residents of four villages in the surrounding area, namely Kampung Bukit Rawa, Kampung Pekan Sedim, Kampung Gelugur and Kampung Kepala Titi expressed their concern over the...

The China Ban’s Wake-Up Call: Recycling is Not Enough

admin January 22, 2018 0 Comments

Leaders from Around the World Demand Less Plastic January 22, 2018-Recycling professionals, environmentalists, and policy influencers are calling for a significant reduction in the production of plastics, citing China’s recent ban on plastic waste imports from other countries as a “wake-up call” that we can’t recycle our way out of plastic pollution. GAIA, with the help of core partners...

SAM Urges Authorities To Address Problems Faced By Teluk Bahang Coastal Fishers

admin January 11, 2018 0 Comments

PENANG: Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) urges the Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry, Penang state government and local authority to investigate and take immediate action to address the problems faced by the Teluk Bahang coastal fishers here. In a survey conducted by SAM after receiving complaints from the fishermen, we found that the pollution from concrete wastes on coastal and marine...

Make Public State Action Plan on Paired Road Projects

admin December 29, 2017 0 Comments

The Tanjung Bungah Residents Association (TBRA) deeply regrets the approval by the Department of Environment (DOE) of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the three paired road projects on 10 November this year. TBRA has learnt about this from the Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) who were informed about the EIA approval by the DOE.We also have learnt that the Penang State...

Objection of Clearcut Logging Bukit Enggang Forest Reserve

admin December 21, 2017 0 Comments

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) objects to clear cut logging of trees covering 500 hectares in parts of Bukit Enggang Forest Reserve (Compartments 12, 13, 14 & 15 of HS Bukit Enggang) for the purpose of establishing a forest plantation (monoculture cultivation in a Permanent Reserved Forest). The extractive activity (logging) by uncontrolled clear cutting of original forest trees had caused...

Need to review Penang State Enactment on State Park and Botanic Gardens

admin December 6, 2017 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang, while welcoming the move to create a statutory corporation for managing State Parks, including the Penang Botanical Gardens, is disappointed that there was no public consultation on the provisions contained in the law establishing the Corporation. The Bill was rushed through and adopted by the State Assembly without sufficient discussion. After the first...

MUCH NEEDED PAINFUL CLAMPING AND TOWING

admin November 23, 2017 0 Comments

Kudos to the Penang Island City Council (MBPP) and the Penang Island Mayor Dato’ Maimunah Mohd Sharif in enforcing the clamping and towing of illegally parked vehicles. This is in view of the recent case where a lady with her disabled mother’s car was clamped in Jalan Macalister. MBPP enforcement officers acted even-handedly because it is common to find that cars without OKU stickers taking...

CAP SAM Very Distressed By Flood Tragedy

admin November 6, 2017 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang and Sahabat Alam Malaysia are very distressed by the tragedy that has taken place yesterday and early morning today in Penang. The floods, landslides and the disruption of people's lives are even much worst than what happened on 15th Sept. Yes - there was non stop rain and very high winds, but the major factor causing this has been the removal of the hill...

TBRA: Halt short-sighted urban planning

admin November 5, 2017 0 Comments

Penang: Tanjung Bunga Residents’ Association (TBRA) is once again calling for the State to halt all short-sighted and patchy urban planning that continue to cause more flooded homes, uprooted trees, power cuts, and making travel inconvenient. TBRA wants the State to relook at all its urban and sub-urban development projects to see how it can improve the State’s ability to resist and absorb...

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