Environment & Sustainability
Celebrating and Sustaining Our Iconic Species through Conservation
Celebrating and Sustaining Our Iconic Species Through Conservation Celebrating and Sustaining Our Iconic Species Through Conservation The world’s wildlife are faced with many challenges, the biggest threats being habitat loss due to cattle ranching, agricultural expansion and development. Activities...
Cassia cobanensis as a Beneficial Plant in Oil Palm Plantation
Cassia cobanensis as a Beneficial Plant in Oil Palm Plantation Flowering plants are commonly planted around plantations in Malaysia. They are not only planted for the aesthetic value but more importantly for their benefit in Integrated Pest Management system practised in oil palm plantations. There ...
Drivers of land use emissions 1961-2017: What does it say about Malaysian palm oil?
A comprehensive inventory of land-use and agricultural emissions was published in Nature (January 2021) and highlighted that agricultural activities contributed 25% to the total anthropogenic GHG emissions throughout the period of 2001-2017, driven by rising emissions per land area. Using time serie...
Bee -Fencing as an Alternative for Oil Palm Smallholders to Mitigate Human-Elephant Conflict
More than 80% success rate of stopping the elephant from entering farm.
1 Million Forest Trees Planting
1 Million Forest Trees Planting 1 Million Forest Trees Planting In January 2021, Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin planted a Merbau tree in the garden of Seri Perdana to kick off the 100 Million Tree-Planting Campaign 2020-2025. It was the start of Greening Malaysia agenda by planting 100 mil...
Human Elephant Co-existence
Elephant in Malaysia are divided into 2 sub-species. 1223 - 1677 of them live in Peninsular Malaysia (Elephas maximus) and another 2040 of them live exclusively in Sabah (E.maximus borneesis)
