BIODIVERSITY is OUR LIFE

The United Nations declared 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity. It is a celebration of life on earth and of the value of biodiversity for our lives. The world is invited to take action in 2010 to safeguard the variety of life on earth: biodiversity.What are we suppose to do to participate biodiversity campaign by the United Nation.
MALAYSIA’S NATIONAL POLICY
ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
(Official declaration: Thursday, April 16 1998, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
Ministry of Science, Environment and Technology)
Document downloadable at ARBEC’s website: http://www.arbec.com.my
For more information, contact ARBEC at: Tel: 603-788 21158, Fax: 603-706 5966, Email: limster@pop.jaring.my
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Strategy 7: ENHANCE SKILL, CAPABILITIES AND COMPETENCE
Action Plan:
1. Identify critical skill requirements and undertake programmes to develop the
human resource base in the appropriate areas.
2. Utilise research institutes and universities to build up competence in relevant
areas.
3. Enhance research, planning and management capabilities through collaborative
programmes amongst local organisations and between local organisations and
established foreign institutions.
4. Provide reward structures and design reward mechanisms to strengthen
appropriate fields for education to achieve conservation and sustainable use of
biological diversity.
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For those studying in UPM do not miss BGY3102 and BGY4402 in order to support NBP

PARTIAL LIST OF LEGISLATION RELEVANT TO BIOLOGICAL
DIVERSITY
Federal Environmental Quality Act 1974
Fisheries Act 1985
Pesticides Act 1974
Plant Quarantine Act 1976
Customs (Prohibition of Exports)(Amendment) (No.4) Order 1993
Peninsular
Malaysia
Waters Act 1920
Taman Negara (Kelantan) Enactment 1938
Taman Negara (Pahang) Enactment 1939
Taman Negara (Terengganu) Enactment 1939
(The State Parks from the above three
Enactments constitute Taman Negara)
Aboriginal Peoples Act 1954
Land Conservation Act 1960
National Land Code 1965
Protection of Wildlife Act 1972
National Parks Act 1980
National Forestry Act 1984
Sabah Parks Enactment 1984
Forest Enactment 1968
Fauna Conservation Ordinance 1963
Sarawak National Parks Ordinance 1956
Wildlife Protection Ordinance 1958
Forests Ordinance 1954
Natural Resources Ordinance 1949 as amended by Natural Resources and
Environment (Amendment) Ordinance 1993
Public Parks and Greens Ordinance 1993
Water Ordinance 1994