When fate of forest reserves hangs in the balance

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'Sooner or later, there will be no more forest to take. 'My plea is just the same as everyone else’s — let forest reserves remain as such.' - Jarod Lim

It has come to a point that stakeholders have to fight to prevent development from being approved by the authorities and to preserve a forest.

He also pushed the responsibility to the previous state government as the degazettement process was done before 2008. Such efforts by SACF Society and other NGOs championing the protection and preservation of forest reserves is indeed laudable, and they have faced years of struggle to get their voices across.Isn’t protecting green space a shared agenda between elected representatives and the people who voted them in as the government?

 

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