Hi Carl and Alan
After a number of trips to both Peninsula and East Malaysia, I have
noticed the impact on wildlife of both extensive logging and trapping.
But one of the most obvious problems in recent years has been the
replacement of forests with Palm Oil plantations...these plantations are
a little like our 'pine plantations', where an excessive monculture
provides little opportunity for 'diversity' of species.
Palm Oil production is the predominant 'farming' activity in Western
Malaysia and is strongly supported by Government and the World Bank
which give the all clear to Companies and rich families in Malaysia to
deforest what was once a magnificent nation in order to provide some
employment to local Malaysians, and a cheap form of cooking oil to the
third world. Clearing the land is in fact encouraged [much like it has
been and still is in Queensland, another rainforest zone of our planet]
in Malaysia with bank loans and subsidies.
My bird surveys in palm oil plantations there have rarely produced more
than a handful of species.
Laurie Living
Carl Clifford wrote:
G'Day Alan,
The main issues, in my view, are 1. Logging-legal and illegal, 2.
encroachment on National Parks, 3. illegal hunting and trapping and 4.
less than ideal development planning which results in unnecessary
habitat clearing. These problems are not unique to Malaysia, there are
other countries in the region which have the same problems, some to a
much greater degree. The root cause of course is money, which allways
seems to be able to out-talk logic..
Regards,
Carl
On 13/02/2007, at 11:58 AM, Alan Gillanders wrote:
Greetings,
Surveys like this are often good places to raise concervation
concerns. What are the pressing issues in Malasia at the moment?
Regards,
Alan
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