Category: Environment EN

CAP celebrates Earth Day 2016 Our planet is currently losing over 15 billion trees each year, equivalent to 48 football fields every minute. This is outrageous. In Malaysia, we have been losing our precious trees to make way for development, logging, large-scale plantations, urbanization, road projects, etc. Our task now is to stop indiscriminate felling of trees and start planting more trees....

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) calls on the authorities to seriously consider odour as an important environmental pollution issue as it affects communities’ quality of life and infringes our right for a clean environment. Efforts to abate odour levels are necessary in order to maintain the quality of the environment and hence life. CAP is disappointed in the manner the Penang...

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) urged the Penang state government and relevant authorities to investigate and take immediate action to resolve marine pollution in Teluk Bahang that has threatened the livelihood of 600 coastal fishers here. The pollution problem that has become more serious in the past three months has resulted in affected fishermen not going to sea because their...

The Consumers Association of Penang urges the Department of Agriculture Kedah and the Drainage and Irrigation Department to take immediate action to assist 30 farmers in Kampung Ewa, Langkawi Island to rehabilitate their paddy fields which have remained idle for the past three years. The paddy fields covering about 100 acres have been left unattended due to insufficient water supply to irrigate...

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) calls on the Sarawak government to stop further development on peatlands in the State. Among the ongoing development is BLD Plantation Berhad’s concession in North of Sibu. Satellite image analysis performed by Friends of the Orangutans (FOTO) showed that between June and September 2015 BLD had cleared an average of 11 hectares daily. Large-scale development and...

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) and the Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) urge the Penang state government to take immediate measures to stop the shrimp culture projects in Balik Pulau that have threatened the environment and livelihood of more than 1,000 coastal fishers here. The problem that began more than 10 years ago has become more serious because the shrimp farmers have expanded their...

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) lauds the Sarawak State Government for heeding the calls to revoke the extinguishment of the native customary rights (NCR) of between 26 and 30 villages affected by the Baram Dam, located between Long Na’ah and Long Kesseh. SAM also commends the affected communities in Baram for steadfastly making their concerns heard to the State Government over the proposed dam...

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) urges the Negeri Sembilan government, Land & Mines Office  (PTG), local authority, Drainage & Irrigation Department (DID) and the Department of Environment  (DOE) to investigate and take immediate action to curb the pollution of the Batang Benar River which has been severely sedimented. In a survey conducted by SAM, we found that the sedimentation was due to...

Around 2,000 people residing near a cement plant in Chuping, Perlis are affected by dust pollution from quarry rock blasting and breaking, and cement processing factory here. The problem that has continued for more than 30 years has affected residents in Kampung Binjal, Kampung Balik Bukit, Taman Perumahan 20 and Taman Perumahan 21. The condition is very serious during the dry season and windy...

As we gather here today, we wish to highlight these problems that we are facing. The developer of the affordable homes project Potential Dual Sdn. Bhd. has: --    Announced to close the hill road popular for mountain biking activities in order to carry out new development. --   Submitted a proposal to MBPP to use our Taman's road Cangkat Sg Ara 19 as entry and Cangkat Sg Ara 20 as exit road...