Jehan Bakar, from the Pahang chapter of Malaysian Nature Society said more tree-planting efforts are needed now so that the country will have air-cleaning trees or plants should the country face another haze incident next year. — Picture by Miera Zulyana
Jehan Bakar, from the Pahang chapter of Malaysian Nature Society said more tree-planting efforts are needed now so that the country will have air-cleaning trees or plants should the country face another haze incident next year. Referring to a report by the UN Environment Programme, Jehan said trees have proven to help reduce air pollution and significantly cool temperatures in cities. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
Agreeing that there is a need to plant more trees, Tropical Rainforest Conservation and Research Centre’s executive director Dzaeman Dzulkifli David, said this is also one of the long term solutions for mitigating climate change as a whole. According to reports by AFP, some of the most serious fires in Indonesia are happening in carbon-rich peatlands — topped with layers of decomposed plant material several metres thick — which become highly combustible when they’re drained of water to be converted into plantations.
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