Another important area for birds migration. Kapar and Klang Islands are among important bird areas (IBA) for migratory shore birds. Before this Sungai Puloh is among important place to study migratory shore birds. Now the ecology is changed and close to industrial area and internationally heavy shipping route Port Klang. Now we study the chemical input due to heavy anthropogenic activities.

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KUALA LUMPUR, 11 Jan (Bernama) -- Kajian saintifik mengenai biodiversiti di kompleks-kompleks hutan di Malaysia perlu dijalankan secara menyeluruh untuk memudahkan pengumpulan data dan perancangan pelbagai aktiviti seperti pembangunan dan pembalakan.

Naib Presiden Persatuan Pencinta Alam Malaysia (MNS) Prof Dr Ahmad Ismail berkata kajian menyeluruh itu akan membolehkan pihak-pihak berkaitan mengenal pasti risiko bencana seperti banjir atau pencemaran, serta mengurangkan kemusnahan spesies haiwan dan tumbuhan terancam.

Tegasnya, penilaian kesan alam sekitar (EIA) yang dilaksanakan pada masa ini hanyalah kajian jangka pendek yang kadangkala tidak menggambarkan status sebenar flora dan fauna di kawasan yang hendak dibangun atau diempangkan.

"Sukar untuk kita kenal pasti kemusnahan flora dan fauna ekoran banjir baru-baru ini. Sebab itu kita perlu kaji. Banyak ekspedisi yang dijalankan oleh Jabatan Hutan Semenanjung Malaysia bersama-sama universiti tempatan dan MNS boleh dijadikan rujukan," katanya ketika dihubungi Bernama.

Menyifatkan kekurangan motivasi, ahli sains dan dana sebagai faktor sukarnya menjalankan kajian, Ahmad berkata pendekatan baharu perlu diambil untuk membolehkan semua memainkan peranan mengkaji biodiversiti di kompleks hutan termasuk di taman negara dan taman negeri.

continuous contribution to green the earth. As vice president on Malaysian Nature Society make tree planting activity become more active involving many agencies government and corporate sectors.

long way for recycle. many approaches needed to make recycle a true practice.

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A professor in the university cannot run away from reading the thesis. It is great challenge reading thesis by our local students. We need to work hard to bring back true academic culture in the university.

A conflict decision. Need to look it again immediately. Business, politic, environment, ecotourism, local fishermen, smuggling, enforcement, research, education and cost. Timing was right when decision made.

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The KPI dilemma: everything that an academic should be: popular on campus, well respected in the community, and of late, very active in research. The number of research papers he has published in the last three years is impressive, and he expects to notch a high “score” for his key performance indicator (KPI). BUT may be I am dreaming. What I did the university leaders valued differently and they said what I did is common and not CRYSTILISED enough!. May be their glasses foggy.

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As a professor, many are so preoccupied with meeting his research publication KPI that he has spent more time on the phone dealing and wheeling with fellow academics to find partners for his “collaborative” research than lecturing or mentoring his students. The rest of the time is spent on his sole valid research, with the bulk of the work being completed by his two best students. According to some local academics, the pressure to publish research papers – an important facet of the KPI in public universities – is creating an unhealthy intellectual culture.

Professor Dr Ahmad Ismail from Universiti Putra Malaysia biology department is also of the opinion that academic excellence cannot be measured by publications alone.

He strongly believes that other aspects of academia should be considered.

“Publication alone is not enough. Teaching and supervising of students, attending conferences and seminars, extension and dissemination of knowledge and new findings to the public (among others) make an academician complete.”

As a professor of wildlife ecology and ecotoxicology, his area of expertise does not lend itself well to publication.

“We would like our papers to be published in reputable, high-impact journals – but What is important is what we can contri­bute to our own country – at a local level. If you just concentrate on writing, then you are just a writer.

“A lecturer must develop areas of knowledge and then teach it to students, and not rely on textbooks alone.”