Pelihara Juga Kawasan Keliaran dan Habitat Gajah
Kenyataan Media 27 September 2018
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) mengalu-alukan cadangan Kerajaan Negeri Perak untuk mewujudkan Pusat Santuari Gajah di KM20 Jalanraya Gerik - Jeli berhampiran sempadan Perak - Kelantan.
Walau bagaimanapun, SAM menjangka keluasan pusat santuari yang dicadangkan seluas 40 hektar tidak mampu menangani konflik di antara hidupan liar dengan manusia khususnya gajah.
Keluasan pusat santuari yang dicadangkan hanya mampu berperanan sebagai tempat mengurus dan memulihara hidupan liar tersebut sahaja dan bukannya sebagai kawasan keliaran dan habitat semula-jadi.
Read moreWildlife Trafficking An Escalating Global Issue
Press Statement / Letter to Editor 26 September 2018
Local media often display images of seizures of pangolin, ivory, rhino horn, tiger parts and testudines with headlines hailing the success of wildlife seizures by the Malaysian authorities. While these pictures depict the success of law enforcement in the crime against wildlife trafficking, it can be alarming due to the sheer quantity of wildlife products seized not only in Malaysia, but also those seized en-route to or re-exported from Malaysia.
Wildlife trafficking is thought to be the third most valuable illicit commerce in the world, after drugs and weapons. Discussions on combating wildlife trafficking have focused mainly on elephants, rhinos and tigers in Africa and Asia. Often forgotten, however, is the fact that wildlife trafficking occurs across all continents and threatens a wide range of imperiled species, including exotic birds, sea turtles, corals, caimans, iguanas, pangolins and the list goes on.
Read morePenyeludupan Hidupan Liar, Isu Global yang Semakin Meningkat
Kenyataan Akhbar / Surat Kepada Pengarang 26 September 2018
Media tempatan sering memaparkan gambar rampasan tenggiling, gading gajah, tanduk badak, bahagian tubuh harimau dan testudines dengan tajuk kejayaan rampasan hidupan liar oleh pihak berkuasa Malaysia. Manakala gambar ini menunjukkan kejayaan penguatkuasaan undang-undang dalam jenayah terhadap penyeludupan hidupan liar, ia amat membimbangkan memandangkan kepada jumlah produk hidupan liar yang dirampas tidak hanya di Malaysia tetapi juga yang dirampas dalam perjalanan atau dieksport semula dari Malaysia.
Penyeludupan hidupan liar dikatakan perdagangan haram ketiga paling bernilai di dunia, selepas dadah dan senjata api. Perbincangan mengenai membanteras penyeludupan hidupan liar tertumpu terutamanya kepada gajah, badak dan harimau di Afrika dan Asia. Bagaimanapun, sering dilupakan pada hakikatnya bahawa penyeludupan hidupan liar berlaku meliputi semua benua dan mengancam pelbagai spesies terancam termasuklah burung eksotik, penyu, batu karang, caimans, iguanas, tenggiling dan banyak lagi.
Produk hidupan liar haram bergerak melalui negara dan melintasi sempadan dan dijual secara terbuka dan sembunyi. Kebanyakan perdagangan ini berlangsung tanpa dikesan dan oleh itu sukar untuk memastikan jumlah hidupan liar haram yang dihantar dan dijual di seluruh dunia.
Read moreTidak Waras Untuk Menggunakan Insinerator dan Tapak Pelupusan Sisa
Kenyataan Akbar 25 September 2018
Persatuan Pengguna Pulau Pinang (CAP) dan Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) amat kecewa dengan sasaran Kerajaan Malaysia bagi setiap negeri mempunyai sekurang-kurangnya satu insinerator atau loji 'waste to energy' (WTE - sisa-ke-tenaga) dalam tempoh dua tahun, seperti yang dilaporkan dalam berita Bernama.
Insinerator adalah cara yang tidak mampan untuk menangani sumber dan cara paling mahal untuk menguruskan sisa dan menghasilkan elektrik. Insinerator sisa atau loji 'waste to energy' adalah pendekatan 'end-of-pipe' untuk pengurusan sumber dan sisa yang tidak menyelesaikan masalah di punca.
Menteri Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan, Zuraida Kamaruddin berkata insinerator akan digunakan bagi menjadikan proses pelupusan sisa pepejal lebih bersih selain menjimatkan penggunaan tanah daripada terus dibuka sebagai tapak pelupusan sampah baharu. Perlu diperingatkan bahawa loji ‘waste-to-energy’ tidak secara ajaib menghilangkan sisa.
Read moreNo to Mindless Incineration and Landfilling of Waste
Media Statement 25 September 2018
The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) and Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) are very disappointed with the government of Malaysia’s target of each state having at least one incinerator of waste-to-energy (WTE) plant within the next two years, as reported in Bernama news.
Incineration is an unsustainable way of dealing with resources and the most expensive way to manage waste and produce electricity. Waste incineration or so called “waste-to-energy” facility is an ‘end-of-pipe’ approach for resource and waste management that does not tackle the problem at source.
Minister of Housing and Local Government Zuraida Kamaruddin was quoted saying that incineration would make for a cleaner process of solid waste disposal which would also save on land use as it would not require opening up new rubbish disposal sites in the future. Mind you, waste-to-energy facilities do not miraculously make waste disappear.
Read moreExpedite investigations into Lynas Corporation’s operations – says SAM
Press Statement 21 September 2018
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) calls on the Ministry of Energy, Green Technology, Science, Climate Change and Environment (MESTECC) to expedite the investigations into the operations of Lynas Corporation Sdn. Bhd located in Gebeng, Pahang and to take all measures to close the plant and remove all the wastes, including the products made from the wastes which are hazardous to public health and the environment.
Read moreSiasat Segera Operasi Lynas Corporation
Kenyataan Akhbar 21 September 2018
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) menggesa Kementerian Tenaga, Teknologi Hijau, Sains, Perubahan Iklim dan Alam Sekitar (MESTECC) menyegerakan siasatan terhadap operasi Lynas Corporation Sdn. Bhd. yang terletak di Gebeng, Pahang dan mengambil semua langkah untuk menutup kilang itu dan memindahkan semua sisa termasuk produk yang diperbuat daripada sisa yang berbahaya kepada kesihatan awam dan alam sekitar.
Read moreSAM hopes that the penang state government and authorties are serious in resolving pig waste pollution
Two pig farms operating in Gertak Sanggul Picture : SAM
Media Statement 19 September 2018
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) urges the Penang state government to seriously take action against two pig farms operating in Gertak Sanggul in the southwestern part of the island. The farms were allegedly releasing untreated pig waste into the sea. Immediate action is needed so that residents, fishermen and the public who often visit the area are assured that the State Government had taken action to address this long-standing problem.
Over the years SAM had lodged complaints regarding the pollution numerous times to the relevant authorities including the Penang State Government, Penang Island City Council (MBPP), Department of Irrigation and Drainage (DID), Department of Environment (DOE) and Veterinary Services Department but the problem still remains unresolved as if the authorities did not take effective actions to resolve the pollution problem.
Read moreSAM harap kerajaan negeri pulau pinang dan agensi kerajaan yang berkaitan serius tangani isu pencemaran najis khinzir
Kandang Khinzir di Gertak Sanggul Gambar: SAM
Kenyataan Akbar 19September 2018
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) menggesa pihak Kerajaan Negeri Pulau Pinang supaya benar-benar serius dengan tindakan tegas terhadap dua ladang khinzir yang beroperasi di Gertak Sanggul di sebelah barat daya pulau yang didakwa melepaskan sisa kumbahan tidak terawat ke dalam laut. Tindakan segera diperlukan agar penduduk, nelayan dan orang awam yang sering berkunjung ke kawasan tersebut yakin dengan apa yang dikatakan oleh pihak Kerajaan Negeri untuk menangani masalah yang telah sekian lama berlaku ini.
SAM telah beberapa kali mengemukakan aduan kepada pihak-pihak yang berkenaan seperti Kerajaan Negeri Pulau Pinang, Majlis Bandaraya Pulau Pinang (MBPP), Jabatan Pengairan dan Saliran (JPS), Jabatan Alam Sekitar (JAS) dan Jabatan Perkhidmatan Veterinar (JPV) namun perkara ini masih tetap berlaku seolah pihak-pihak yang berkenaan tidak mengambil serius untuk menyelesaikan segala permasalahan ini.
Read moreSAM & CAP welcome decision to stop logging activities in Bukit Perangin
Media Statement 18September 2018
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) and the Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) welcome the Kedah state government’s decision to stop logging activities in Bukit Perangin, in the district of Kubang Pasu as the logging activities have adversely affected the environment and lives of the local community here.
Commenting on an article in a local newspaper (Sinar Harian: 26 August 2018) quoting Kubang Pasu Member of Parliament Datuk Amiruddin Hamzah on the matter, we think it is timely for the new government to do so because more than 400 residents of Kampung Wang Perah had suffered long due to the logging here. Amiruddin stated he was worried that if the uncontrolled logging activity continues, it will cause disturbance to the ecosystem in the nearby Bukit Wang Recreation Forest.
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