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t citizens wondering if perhilitan officers are able to evaluate what does or does not constitute a threat this unnecessary and vicious killing is not an isolated incident the perhilitan units in various states have a long history of being implicated in the killing of wild animals many of which have not been proven to be threats to local residents there is a report of perhilitan negeri sembilan killing a peaceful herd of wild boars in october 2017 and even enabling a pack of hunting dogs to maul the wild piglets to death in 2013 aljazeera reported that perhilitan culled 10 000 long tailed macaques in 2012 and perhilitan confirmed the existence of the culling operations even while acknowledging agricultural expansion and housing developments near forested areas to be the causes of human macaque conflict we must remember that the population of stray animals and wild species such as macaques explodes only when humans make changes to the environment and interfere with the lives of animals so significantly over a period of time that it changes the availability of food supply and the existence of predators and competitors of a particular species ironically the director general of perhilitan had in an official pronouncement in march 2019 reminded the public not to kill or ill treat wildlife and warned the public that cruelty to wildlife is an offence under section 86 of the wildlife conservation act 2010 the d g had also emphasized the need to protect wildlife and ensure the survival of endangered species and sought the cooperation of the public to contact perhilitan in the event of a human wildlife conflict instead of taking matters into one s own hands can we the public now invoke the same section to demand that the officers who had shot the langurs be prosecuted for cruelty to wildlife considering that even non wildlife experts and local residents are able to tell that the langurs are not a threat to humans can the perhilitan officers really be said to have acted in good faith and to actually believe that they were carrying out their official duties to protect wildlife and mitigate human wildlife conflict if that were true then perhaps a retraining of all perhilitan officers is in order even in the case of problem wildlife such as long tailed macaques wildlife experts concur that culling may not be the best solution and should never be the first option culling could destroy biodiversity by harming unrelated species for example in the current case in which complaints were made about long tailed macaques but it was ultimately the harmless and endangered langurs that were slain culling could result in unintended ecological consequences for example as in the now famous anecdote of how china had in 1949 culled sparrows as a disease prevention measure which resulted in the destruction of crops by locusts as there were insufficient sparrows to keep the locusts in check culling may in fact lead to the increase in the population that the authorities is trying to cull as can be seen in the case of the feral cat population in tasmania scientists and animal behaviourists have observed that when older dominant adult animals are killed younger animals move in from the surrounding areas to replace the adult animals as the older and more dominant adult animals are no longer around to kill or chase away the younger animals culling some animals from a problematic colony also creates more space food and reproductive opportunities for the ones that remain and within a short time their population will bounce back to what it was pre cull to reduce human macaque conflict developers need to build human homes further away from wildlife habitats and forest fringes create buffer zones and install security fences and monkey proof garbage bins perhilitan needs to monitor areas with reported human wildlife conflicts and enforce their threats to fine and punish people who feed wildlife without the wildlife feeders and easy availability of human generated food waste much of the conflict between humans and macaques could have been reduced culling is cruel both to the humans who have to desensitize themselves to the pain and suffering of animals to perform this brutal act and cruel to the animals who are often just the victims of their circumstances wild boars and macaques do not after all ask for housing areas or highways to be constructed through their habitats and do not ask to be fed translocation and relocation to national parks and forest reserves sterilization of wild animals by qualified vets and biological pest control by reintroducing the natural predators of an overpopulated species are all more humane more sustainable and more responsible options than culling although more expensive and time consuming initially however we owe it to the animals to at least find kinder and gentler resolutions to human wildlife conflict considering that the conflict is a manmade one public confidence in perhilitan as a wildlife protection agency is at an all time low those of us working in the conservation and animal protection sectors have a difficult time convincing members of the public to report wildlife crimes and urban wildlife sightings to perhilitan via its hotline numbers this does not bode well for the future of wildlife conservation and rehabilitation in malaysia if the general response of the public is that they would rather condone the keeping of wildlife as pets or release captured wild animals themselves than refer the matter to the country s only official agency responsible for the protection and conservation of wildlife the d g of perhilitan needs to investigate the killing of the langurs immediately and come up with new sops for dealing with human wildlife conflict to restore public confidence in the agency members of the public will also need to play their part in learning to coexist with local fauna and reduce the risk of human wildlife conflicts instead of reporting encounters with wildlife as problems to be dealt with and eliminated wong ee lynn petaling jaya selangor posted by covertoperations78 at 12 40 no comments labels animal rights and welfare current events letters to the editor wildlife saturday 3 april 2021 letter to the editor biodiversity loss a cause for alarm letter to the editor biodiversity loss a cause for alarm image credits https www reuters com article us malaysia palmoil deforestation iduskcn1vd0cr the recent report that a total of 567 plant species out of the 1 600 peninsular malaysia plant species assessed in the malaysia red list have been classified as threatened should be a cause for alarm malaysia s tree cover which stands at approximately 55 3 obscures the alarming reality of biodiversity loss in malaysia but the fact remains that tree cover is not the same as natural forest cover most of malaysia s tree cover consists of plantations and degraded forest land plantations do not have the same biodiversity value and cannot provide the same ecosystem services as natural forests intact and biodiverse forests protect watersheds and water quality are more resistant to fire and drought regulate climate and weather patterns and provide habitat for a wide range of flora and fauna biodiversity ensures food security as a biodiverse ecosystem will provide genetic resources for a variety of food including those that are resistant to fungi and diseases that may wipe out cultivated strains of crops keeping forests intact and biodiverse prevents wild species from crossing into human habitation and spreading both known and new diseases to domestic animals and humans and thus protect biosecurity approximately 50 000 to 70 000 plant species are used by humans for traditional and modern medicine worldwide biodiversity loss will limit the discovery of potential new medicines and medical treatments humans rely on the ecosystem services such as the supply of clean air and water provided by healthy and biodiverse ecosystems the national water resources study 2000 2050 warns that kedah kuala lumpur melaka penang perlis putrajaya and selangor are at risk of water deficits partly due to the loss of vital water catchment areas and partly due to poor water management systems and habits the un fao reports that only 18 7 of forests in malaysia is classified as primary forest the most biologically diverse and carbon dense ecosystem and that only 11 6 of the forests in malaysia is classified as pristine malaysia is rapidly losing forested areas to agriculture and development and state governments continue to degazette forest reserves and issue logging permits with impunity the requirement that states gazette replacement sites for degazetted reserves does nothing to turn the tide of biodiversity loss states are running out of suitable sites to gazette as replacement forest reserves and further the gazettement of secondary forests and degraded land cannot be a substitute for the protection of natural and intact forests google s global forest map reveals that between 2000 and 2012 malaysia had the world s highest deforestation rate at 14 4 satellite data from the carnegie landsat analysis system lite platform shows that over 80 of the rainforests in east malaysia have already been logged between 2000 and 2009 over 9 000 hectares of permanent forest reserves were degazetted in malaysia threatening watersheds and carbon sequesters and destroying flora and fauna including those classified as critically endangered on the iucn red list the degazettement of the bikam permanent forest reserve in 2013 caused the extinction of the keruing paya a critically endangered hardwood tree in peninsular malaysia the best way to mitigate biodiversity loss is by protecting existing forests one of the main problems why forest conservation is so challenging in malaysia is that the federal constitution gives states jurisdiction over their land water and forests forestry revenue accrues to the state government and not to the federal government and as such forests and extraction based industries such as logging and mining are a major source of revenue for state governments seeking short term gain government agencies set up to manage forests see forests not as sensitive ecosystems to be protected but as resources for socioeconomic development however the economic benefits of logging and mining are short lived and can sustain only 1 2 generations at most state governments stand to lose more from the loss of forests and the ecosystem services they provide droughts floods soil erosion landslides and health crises such as dengue and malaria outbreaks will all cost the state and federal governments more in the long run we need to stop relying on commodity crops and extraction based industries as our primary source of revenue if we build a knowledge and skills based economy and stop relying on monoculture crops and extraction based industries as our country s primary source of revenue and jobs we can find better ways of sustaining our economy we need to rid ourselves of the mentality that the loss of threatened tree species does not affect us or that it can be rectified through tree planting campaigns and gazetting degraded land as replacement forest reserves tree planting campaigns habitat restoration the setting up of seed banks and environmental education for the younger generation all take time to bear results and time is a luxury that threatened species do not have biodiversity is not merely something that is nice to have but essential to the survival of humanity and a living planet wong ee lynn petaling jaya selangor posted by covertoperations78 at 13 40 no comments labels current events letters to the editor wednesday 3 february 2021 letter to the editor end deforestation before embarking on tree planting campaigns letter to the editor end deforestation before embarking on tree planting campaigns it is difficult for environmentalists not to respond with scepticism to the prime minister s 100 million tree planting campaign while it is heartening to see that the government acknowledges climate change to be a real and imminent threat the actions of those in power thus far are not consistent with environmental protection climate mitigation or biodiversity preservation the pm claims that malaysia has forest cover of 55 3 which is wildly inaccurate as it includes plantations which consist of monoculture crops that rely on large quantities of synthetic herbicides insecticides bactericides and fertilisers in order to thrive the un food and agriculture organisation reported malaysia s primary forest cover to be at 18 7 in 2010 and it has decreased since then tree cover is not the same as forest cover and not everything that puts out roots and leaves is automatically beneficial to the environment old growth forests store carbon for centuries whereas plantations constitute net emitters of carbon due to the disturbance of the soil and degradation of the previous ecosystem plantations cannot be classified as forests and they are in fact a direct threat to forests due to the fact that forests are cleared for agricultural expansion for the sake of scientific accuracy and for this massive tree planting campaign to be an actual climate mitigation strategy this inventory of 100 million trees must necessarily exclude plantation trees while a tree planting campaign of this magnitude sounds good in theory the perikatan nasional government does not have a credible environmental track record just days before the announcement of the 100 million tree planting campaign the kedah government proposed to log 25 000 hectares of the ulu muda forest which is a vital water catchment area and biodiversity hotbed further there are recent reports of logging in the vicinity of the jerantut tambahan forest reserve and lesung permanent forest reserve among other forest reserves things in pakatan nasional controlled states are not much better as the selangor state government is adamant about proceeding with its plans to degazette and destroy the kuala langat north forest reserve based on these precedents it is difficult to believe that the government is in any way committed to protecting the environment planting trees make up only a partial solution to the effects of deforestation a better less expensive and less quixotic option would be to end or at least reduce deforestation let us remember that mature trees offset far greater amounts of carbon dioxide than young trees a tree will only begin to be effective in absorbing carbon in its tenth year so planting trees as a climate mitigation strategy is not going to produce the results we want to see within our lifetimes intact forests provide many ecosystem services that newly planted trees can t researchers from 15 countries published their findings in nature in 2014 that old trees not only store carbon and prevent it from escaping into the atmosphere but actively convert carbon dioxide from the air into their trunks branches and leaves a feat 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