Residents Speak Up for the Park

This past Thursday, 21 October, over 200 residents, concerned youth and reps from NGOs attended the public hearing to voice their concerns about the plans in the Draft Local Plan for Ampang Jaya - not a bad turnout for a working day!

All of the residents and NGOs expressed their intense objections to the KL Outer Ring Road cutting through  Taman Negeri Selangor and the increasing development pressures on the Park, particularly the Klang Gates Quartz Ridge.

Some of those who attended pose for a photo
with posters objecting to the KLORR

There were a number of other proposals that the residents and NGOs strongly objected to including:

• a proposed incinerator
• TNB high tension wires planned along a steep hill and near housing in Tmn Bkt Segar Jaya area
• continued development plans on the steep, sensitive slopes of the entire Ampang area
• the intensity of new housing and other developments that are destroying the greenery and overall quality of life throughout the areas of Ampang
• the increasing human-wildlife "conflicts" due to the lack of green space and conversion of green spaces to development, leaving no room for the wildlife
• increasing developments along river reserves
• the extremely small amount of green-recreational space (less than 5%) throughout the Ampang area

Chairman of the hearing En. Iskandar Abdul Samad (State Exco) said that the objections would be discussed at the State Planning Committee in December.

Many thanks must be given to the residents, young people and NGO groups that took the time to attend the hearing and speak up for the Park, the environment and our overall quality of life.  Many thanks must also be given to everyone who wrote in objections earlier this year, again, calling for the better protection of the Selangor State Park and the environment in general.  Thanks must also be given to the government for hearing us.  Now we must see if they ACT on our concerns.  

Read more about what happened during the hearing on  Malaysiakini's Komunitikini  and The Star Metro

Taman Negeri Selangor Needs YOU to Take Action!

Taman Negeri Selangor needs YOU to take action!  A public hearing will be held on 21 October relating to the Ampang Jaya Draft Structure Plans that came out at the end of 2009. 

In the Draft Plan, the alignment of the KL Outer Ring Road was shown to cut through the centre of the Klang Gates Quartz Ridge, and bisect the length of the Ampang Forest Reserve - both of which are critical habitats of the Park.   For more details click here

Putting a major highway through the middle of environmentally sensitive areas, critical to water supply and recently gazetted as a 'state park' seems to be an extreme contradiction in planning.

This is your chance to speak up for the Park.  Details of the hearing are as follows:

Thursday, 21 October 2010
9 - 11.30 am (session 1)
Auditorium, 5th Floor, Menara MPAJ
MPAJ

The reply form is below, IF you wish to fax to MPAJ your attendance.  Let's all speak up to keep this important forest intact - for the security of our quality of life.

Fieldtrip fun to Sg. Tua

A bus load of students from SK Tun Abdul Razak, Kuala Kubu Baru had an amazing experience at Sg. Tua Recreation Forest on Tuesday, 15 October, under TrEES School Programme.

The good time included discovering amazing things in the forest while jungle trekking, finding small creatures such as prawns and crabs to test the stream ecology and a refreshing swim in Sg. Tua.


Many thanks to the students and teachers of SK TAR.  Thank you to Yayasan Bursa for sponsoring the activity.  Thank you to the Forestry Department and LUAS for running excellent activities during trip!