Malayan Nature Society Aiming for Ramsar Site since 2014. Since then MNS working out all the procedures and criteria to meet as the Ramsar Site. Local authority MDKS will proceed with the State Government. MNS hope Selangor Government will accept the proposal and move forward towards Ramsar Sites the first in Selangor and near to Kuala Lumpur. In fact MNS want to add Kuala Gula and Teluk Air Tawar too as the NEW Ramsar Site.

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2014/02/12/ksnp-aiming-for-ramsar-recognition-approval-will-make-park-countrys-eighth-certified-site/

another conflict on science, poor, business and rules and regulations. Public, Government Officers and Politician must be educated. Everybody want food, enough and easy. Nature already provide enough food for the future generation.

https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/449729

Coral reefs, as vital to tropical fish as trees are to birds, are becoming more vulnerable to a process called "bleaching," which occurs when a spike in water temperatures causes coral to expel the algae that provide their kaleidoscope colours, leaving them prone to starvation or disease. Today, swaths of the once-psychedelic Great Barrier Reef in Australia have turned boneyard white and largely devoid of life.

Scientists fear a similar fate could await the Coral Triangle, a huge underwater wonderland east of Borneo endowed with a trove of biodiversity comparable to the rainforests of the Amazon Basin. Millions of people depend on its bounty to survive, a large share of them Malaysians, who eat an average of 57kg of fish each a year - more than double the world average.

The appetite for farmed species is so voracious, almost 20 percent of the annual catch from the world's seas is ground into fishmeal, a nutrient-rich powder that forms the basis of the feeds used from salmon cages in Scottish lochs to shrimp ponds on Borneo. Vast amounts of fish have been taken from poorer countries to feed species destined for the plates of wealthier consumers. In addition, shrimp farms, in particular, have made coastal communities in the tropics even more vulnerable by cutting down mangroves, their first line of defence against extreme weather and rising sea levels.

Since the mid-1970s, the aquaculture industry has led to the destruction of more than 1.3 million acres of mangroves spread across Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, China, Brazil and Ecuador, according to a 2013 paper in the Bulletin of Marine Science. Untreated waste and epidemics of shrimp-killing diseases mean the gains can be short-lived: A study published this year identified more than half a million acres of abandoned shrimp ponds in Indonesia alone.

not that easy to convince the public and the government to preserve the area for Ramsar Site. If Selangor Government Kuala Selangor Nature Park will be the first in Selangor.

https://www.thestar.com.my/metro/metro-news/2018/10/26/kuala-selangor-out-to-get-ramsar-listing-for-wetlands/

A very big challenge about stop using plastics and tan the pastic industries since plastic already became part of life. managing plastic and understand about plastic pollution are important among public.

A motivation to rugby players

Meeting old friends talking about young life overseas when we did our undergraduates and postgraduates studies. Now some are retired and some are still working. As usual at this age many questions are about health, children and granchildren. Volunteering work is one of the activities to make life active. I asked them to join me active in Malaysian Nature Society.

try to introduce another volunteering activity entertaining children playing with soils and potting plants. Urban life children are not expose to planting activities.

World Habitat Day celebrated every year. coincide with World Urban Forum held in Malaysia in February this year, Government and public must learn from the event. Certainly not the ceremonial. It is about life.

Environmental Week Celebration is not ceremonial but something about education, awareness and practical. Daily life practice of become our lifestyle.

The idea of developing highlands from Cameron Highlands to Genting Highlands was highlighted long time a go. The idea stop because of the development will affect the water resources. May be new technologies needed to produce same quality of highlands vegetables and fruits grown in lower lands. Aggressive researches are needed.

This is why public education and awareness is very important. Education need to do it continuously and never giveup. We must try to avoid conflict like this. We campaign about green and healthy environment by planting trees BUT at the sometime we create rubbish especially plastic near the sea. If this rubbish is not clear immediately it will be blown in to the sea and may be ingested by marine animals, or broken in to a micro plastic which is more dangerous.to marine animals and human.

World Habitat Day 2018: How many Malaysian are realised people in the world are celebrating World Habitat day and thinking about the environment that they leave in term of healthy, cleanliness, affordable and no pollution. This year world are talking about managing solid waste especially the plastic.

Promoting Enviromental Week at Universiti Putra Malaysia. Part of continuous campaign for green campus and good habit in promoting green life style.

13th year of celebration to promote migratory shorebirds conservation and Kuala Selangor Nature Park (KSNP) towards Ramsar Site.

know about your contribution in plastic pollution in the ocean???

Another mangrove tree planting

Forest inn the urban areas need to be protected and preserve. Good for the future generation, education, research, recreation and tourism.

Another mangrove tree planting at Sungai Haji Dorani.

history of contribution to nature

another coming annual seminar on ecology to promote young ecologists in Malaysia.

All of us can change our habit. if every body can change after celebrating Malaysia environmental week 21-27 October 2018 we reduce significant plastic trash in the ocean. We know changing habit not that easy. BUT with more training and we do together hopefully we can do it, we can change. reduce plastic.

Plastic bottles and single used plastic bags are among significant trash in our environment. Our ocean are contaminated by plastic. NOW about time we all start stop polluting ocean with plastic.

Do not miss this annual event since 13 years a go. Understand about migratory shore birds, and together join MNS (Malaysian Nature Society) to protect and conserve this birds and their habitat.

Fighting or appealing to save ulu muda forest complex was started long a go when te NGOs are tinking on the future water crisis and habitat for wildlife. BUT illegal and legal logging continues. The Kedah Government must be more creative to generate incomes not depending on natural resources like timber and sands. Produce more rice and increase tourism. Refer to the experts.

Mangrove seedling planting in Sungai Latoh Kongkong Laut Johore. Supported by Petronas Gas. Participated by volunteers from Petronas, Local communities and Malaysian Nature Society Johore Branch.

more ideas in the local news paper on plastic pollution. All Malaysian must start not to use single-used plastics such as plastic straws and plastic bags.

This is another opportunity to start studies on the survival of mangrove ecosystem. We will try to involve UPM, UIAM. UTM and UTHM in the programme not just in biology and ecology but socio-economy too. This area is developing very fast now in industry, housing and commercial areas.

We need to promote this 78 years old journal The Malayan Nature Journal. It should lead the nature publications in Sundaland region.

WORLD HABITAT DAY. Another contribution for nature education for conservation. We need a special fund for this to support Government programme on Kuala Lumpur's River of Life. If 1000 companies in Kuala Lumpur donate to MNS (Malaysian Nature Society) for RM 1000 each for education programme we will get RM1000000. We plan to launch the programme soon.

Another commitment for next two years. Fighting for nature conservation in Malaysia.

Another contribution to nature and conservation. Mangrove seedling planting.