TRIBUTE Many Malaysians think that hornbills are only found in Sarawak. Only a few weeks ago, as I floated in Tasek Kenyir, I watched in awe as hornbill after hornbill flew home to roost at dusk.

In fact, I first sighted a hornbill one morning when I was a kid during the Fifties, on our mangosteen tree in Batu Pahat, Johor. It was a thrilling sighting and I still experience the same thrill every time I sight a hornbill in the wild with its majestic beak and spectacular colours.

Sim Kwang Yang (SKY) certainly embodied the wild majesty of the hornbill. He represented Bandar Kuching for three terms in Parliament, speaking up not only for his peoples and forests in Sarawak but also about injustice and the environment everywhere in the world...