
MP SPEAKS | RM500m for Forest Scheme must not touch forest reserves
'There were no safeguards against conversion of well-stocked forests into monoculture timber plantations.'

'There were no safeguards against conversion of well-stocked forests into monoculture timber plantations.'

This is in relation to a logging project worth more than RM27 million in Pahang, five years ago.

The state Forestry Dept issued the order after a meeting among the authorities, the logging company and representatives of the tribe.

The Centre for Orang Asli Concerns says logging activities in Perak and K'tan have commenced since the recovery MCO took effect on June 10.


The state government should develop other sustainable sources of revenue instead of continuing logging activities in the forest.


The Kedah gov't is mulling to compensate logging companies for concessions cancelled by the previous Harapan gov't with replacement concessions.

Muhammad Sanusi says the claims previously stood at RM1 billion.

The former menteri besar claims that no company, individually or collectively, had demanded compensation of up to RM1 billion.

Loggers need to be paid or given replacement forests due to withdrawal of their concessions by previous state gov't.

The MB's remarks on the matter were on resolving existing issues carried over from the previous Harapan administration.

‘It should push ‘green’ sermons amongst the religiously-inclined.’

The withdrawal was due to the failure to resolve a major non-conformity raised in a surveillance audit.

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Faizal also says that blockades are set up by splinter groups who only recently moved onto the land.

The order will be in place until discussions between state gov't and Orang Asli community have been completed.

Ahmad Faizal Azumu had come under criticism over his refusal to recognise Orang Asli customary land and his defence of logging activities in their area.