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For the second year in a row, Macaranga has won gold in the category of outstanding environmental reporting, in the Malaysian Press Institute’s Malaysian Journalism Awards 2022. We also won silver in investigative reporting and bronze in feature writing. Click to see our award-winning stories and the others in our categories. Thank you to the MPI selection committee!

Media Workshops: We've been busy giving media training on data and climate journalism, and how to take a solutions journalism approach to wildlife reporting. Details in our blog.

Listen: September environmental news highlights include wins for indigenous land rights in Sarawak and Pahang; a blow to limestone conservation in Perak; and good - if challenge laden - news for sustainable energy with Malaysia's Roadmap to Energy Transition.

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Join us every last Monday of the month for our monthly wrap-up of environmental news and issues of the month that was. At 3.30pm-ish on 'Earth Matters', BFM Radio 89.9FM. Podcasts uploaded on our blog.

Look out for the #YUFExMacaranga hashtag on our socials. Macaranga is collaborating with environmental youth group YUFE for them to produce youth-targeted content from Macaranga's stories. Head over to Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn!

ECOSYSTEM SPOTLIGHT

Karst Ecosystem poster - Macaranga — Tower karst of Gunung Rapat, Kinta Valley, reflected in an old mining pond (photo: Cheang Kum Seng)

This is where we feature the various ecosystems in Malaysia. From cloud forests to coral reefs, these are the rawest reasons we do environmental journalism. For each ecosystem, we tell the stories of not only the natural living and non-living components of these communities and systems, but also the human ones. Here, you can explore natural Malaysia in text, voice and photos, guided by the experience of those who know it well.

MANGROVE ECOSYSTEM

Mangroves, Kemaman, Terengganu (SK Chong/Sasyaz Holdings)

Living between sea and land are mangroves (‘bakau’), protectors of coasts, ‘reclaimers’ of land, nurseries for fish. Its biodiversity and ecosystem roles are larger and more complex than meets the eye.

Fish on Land

Gold-spotted Mudskippers Periophthalmus chrysospilos (Photo: Chien Lee)

Salty Strategies

How mangroves escape salt (Photo: Alison Kim)

Reptile King

Saltwater crocodile (Photo: Wan Nor Fitri Wan Jaafar)

KARST ECOSYSTEM

Popularly known as limestone ('batu kapur'), Malaysia's remarkable karst landscape has been sculpted by centuries of action of water on soft rock. It is also home to unique life-forms and is part of human life.

Mapping Every Hill

The science of mapping limestone outcrops (Image: Liew Thor Seng)

Scaling Heights

Rock climbing on limestone (Photo: Chan Yuen Li)

Four Axes

Rare land snail (Opisthostoma vermiculum) (Photo: Foon Junn Kit)

VOICES

KEVIN HIEW WAI PHANG

Kevin Hiew, Advisor, Reef Check Malaysia (Photo: SL Wong)

“Conservation work…is really, really long term. I’m willing to go on doing it.”

(Interviewed 2019)

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