Regrowing Sabah’s precious rainforests
A Sabahan conservationist is studying the carbon sequestration from her project’s tree planting efforts in the severely logged Lower Kinabatangan River, in order to better understand and implement reforestation more effectively.
What Way If Not the PJD Highway?
While locals seem to strongly protest against the PJD highway running through their communities, our survey suggests they are keen on driving. This is Part 2 of 2.
Voices Along An Elevated Highway
Using surveys, interviews, road maps, and highway images, we bring you on a tour of the much-contested elevated highway Petaling Jaya Dispersal Link highway. Along the way, locals show mixed opinions of the project; many didn’t even know about it.
Projects that Replaced Natural Forests in Peninsular Malaysia
An attempt to analyse environmental impact assessment reports to ascertain the projects approved inside natural forests in Peninsular Malaysia in 2001–2021. Come explore the projects on an interactive map.
Navigating the Multiverse of Forest Data
An attempt to untangle the messy forest data with its many contradicting forest area and statuses. The data resembles a multiverse, and it is complicating efforts for better conservation and sustainable development. Suggested solutions: make the data free, transparent, and public.
Popular Songbird Gets Trade Protection
As regulators tighten international trade of the White-rumped shama, local hunting and captive breeding continue.
![“There are areas that have been destroyed by the [shrimp farm] company that can’t be reforested, seeing that it was excavated so deeply and flooded so badly, and became a swamp. No plants can survive. We are villagers with many limitations. But we will not give up on rehabilitating the area naturally. Will will defend the 1,000 acres mangrove forests in the middle of six villages, the G6. It shouldn’t be destroyed or taken by the company but given to the six villages to be passed down from this generation to the next.” - Mastupang Somoi, 58](https://www.macaranga.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Pitas_ShrimpFarm-3.jpg)
Penduduk Pitas Memulih Bakau yang Dimusnah Kolam Udang Gagal
Penduduk setempat di Pitas, Sabah, menderita akibat tambak udang besar yang menghancurkan hutan bakau mereka dan kemudian gulung tikar.
Pitas Villagers Restoring Mangroves Destroyed by Failed Shrimp Farm
Locals in Pitas, Sabah, suffer the consequences of a huge shrimp farm that destroyed their mangroves and then went out of business.
Locals protest sand mining in Sabah
The project is part of a RM2 billion Chinese investment favoured by the state government. But locals complain they were not sufficiently consulted and worry about the potential health impact.
Orang Asli Reject New Houses for Forests
After guarding a blockade against loggers for 16 months, a group of Orang Asli in Pahang is bringing their fight to the court. Part 3 of 3.
Regrowing Sabah’s precious rainforests
A Sabahan conservationist is studying the carbon sequestration from her project’s tree planting efforts in the severely logged Lower Kinabatangan River, in order to better understand and implement reforestation more effectively.
What Way If Not the PJD Highway?
While locals seem to strongly protest against the PJD highway running through their communities, our survey suggests they are keen on driving. This is Part 2 of 2.
Voices Along An Elevated Highway
Using surveys, interviews, road maps, and highway images, we bring you on a tour of the much-contested elevated highway Petaling Jaya Dispersal Link highway. Along the way, locals show mixed opinions of the project; many didn’t even know about it.
Projects that Replaced Natural Forests in Peninsular Malaysia
An attempt to analyse environmental impact assessment reports to ascertain the projects approved inside natural forests in Peninsular Malaysia in 2001–2021. Come explore the projects on an interactive map.
Navigating the Multiverse of Forest Data
An attempt to untangle the messy forest data with its many contradicting forest area and statuses. The data resembles a multiverse, and it is complicating efforts for better conservation and sustainable development. Suggested solutions: make the data free, transparent, and public.
Popular Songbird Gets Trade Protection
As regulators tighten international trade of the White-rumped shama, local hunting and captive breeding continue.
Penduduk Pitas Memulih Bakau yang Dimusnah Kolam Udang Gagal
Penduduk setempat di Pitas, Sabah, menderita akibat tambak udang besar yang menghancurkan hutan bakau mereka dan kemudian gulung tikar.
Pitas Villagers Restoring Mangroves Destroyed by Failed Shrimp Farm
Locals in Pitas, Sabah, suffer the consequences of a huge shrimp farm that destroyed their mangroves and then went out of business.
Locals protest sand mining in Sabah
The project is part of a RM2 billion Chinese investment favoured by the state government. But locals complain they were not sufficiently consulted and worry about the potential health impact.
Orang Asli Reject New Houses for Forests
After guarding a blockade against loggers for 16 months, a group of Orang Asli in Pahang is bringing their fight to the court. Part 3 of 3.
From singing gibbons to plastic pollution and registration fees, Macaranga covered the major international meeting of conservationists in July 2019.
ALL ICCB 2019 REPORTS
What Way If Not the PJD Highway?
Voices Along An Elevated Highway
Navigating the Multiverse of Forest Data
In the Murky Waters of Brunei Bay, Turtles Feed
Where Might Oil Palm Go Next?
Talk Less, Listen More
Marine Champion Honoured With Award
How Do Turtles Like Their Sand?
ICCB: All Things Conservation
Gibbons Still Sing In Merapoh
Plastic Solutions: It’s Complicated
When Plastic Hits You In the Gut
Opportunities Seized and Missed
The dubious means by which tarantulas end up in scientists’ hands is cause for alarm.
