Environmental activists want Perak govt not to extend land leases for quarries, mining sites in geoparks

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IPOH: Environmentalists have urged the state government here not to extend the ownership and lease period of land for quarry and mining sites located within the Kinta Valley National Geopark and permanent forests reserves in Perak.

said this is especially so for quarry sites located at limestone hills, of which many sites had been declared as part of the Geopark.

“Area A and B of Gunung Kanthan have already been destroyed due to quarrying, now with the extension of the lease, we are worried that these pockets of land will be destroyed as well. Meor also claimed that a company had put in an application for quarrying to be conducted on 122ha of land in the Segari-Melintang forest reserve at the Manjung district.

 

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