YP Olio 有限公司最近从联邦环境局获得允准在8498公顷的地块上清除森林并种植油棕。
该项目地块位于彭亨州的珍妮-百乐综合森林内，这是一个具有丰富生物多样性和生态价值的天然森林。在项目地块里还有两座原住民村落，村民声称该地方是他们的习俗地。
Macaranga发现，该项目将给发展商带来巨大的利益，而政府和社会将付出高昂的代价。此外，项目对森林的破坏将危及已经濒危的马来亚虎。
该项目对马来西亚油棕业的声誉有什么影响？ 对于彭亨州政府和发展商来说，最适当的选择又是什么？
第一篇：为卖不出去的油棕砍伐森林
第二篇：承诺保育老虎，却在彭亨破坏栖息地
第三篇：原住民为森林放弃新房子
Syarikat YP Olio Sdn Bhd baru menerima kelulusan daripada Jabatan Alam Sekitar untuk menebang kawasan hutan 8,498 ha untuk dijadikan ladang kelapa sawit.
Tapak itu terletak dalam kompleks hutan Chini-Bera, Pahang, sebuah hutan asli yang cukup kaya dengan kepelbagaian biologi dan nilai-nilai ekologi. Terdapat juga dua kampung Orang Asli dalam tapak projek yang menuntut kawasan itu sebagai tanah adat mereka.
Siasatan Macaranga mendapati bahawa projek ini membawa manfaat besar kepada pihak pemaju, manakala pihak kerajaan dan masyarakat menanggung kos yang tinggi. Tambahan pula, kemusnahan hutan itu akan menjejas populasi harimau Malaya yang sudahpun hampir pupus.
Apakah kesan projek tersebut ke atas reputasi kemampanan industri kelapa sawit di Malaysia? Apakah pilihan paling wajar bagi pihak kerajaan Pahang dan pemaju?
Bahagian 1: Menebang Hutan Demi Kelapa Sawit Yang Takkan Terjual
Bahagian 2: Biarpun Sudah Berjanji, Habitat Harimau di Pahang Tetap Dimusnahkan
Bahagian 3: Orang Asli Menolak Tawaran Rumah Baharu Untuk Hutan
Another tiger and elephant habitat in Pahang has been approved to be turned into an oil palm plantation. But if the developer and state government wish to spare the forest, there are profitable alternatives. Part 2 of 3.
This story is produced in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network.
[Versi Bahasa Malaysia] [即将发布：中文版]
A PROPOSED 8,498 ha oil palm project in Pahang occupies a key location in Peninsular Malaysia’s wildlife habitats and forest landscape. The project site sits in the centre of the Chini-Bera forest complex, according to the Master Plan for Ecological Linkages Central Forest Spine (2022).
That complex connects the Greater Taman Negara forest complex in the north with the Endau-Rompin Sedili forest complex in the south. The Central Forest Spine (CFS) Masterplan aims to establish wildlife corridors called “linkages” between these complexes that would allow animals like tigers to move and breed across the landscape.
(Photo: A tiger pawprint found in the vicinity of the Bukit Ibam forests (background) being cleared for timber and oil palm plantation. | Pawprint photo courtesy of Mohjoey mojoey (Facebook), satellite image by Planet Labs Inc)
Tebang, Tarah, Tebas: Perginya Hutan Besar
Bagaimana penyahwartaan terbesar hutan dalam tempoh dua dekad mengubah alam sekitar, ekonomi dan komuniti
Penerbit/Penulis: YH Law
Penterjemah: Adriana Nordin Manan
Penyunting: SL Wong
Diterbitkan dengan kolaborasi Rainforest Investigations Network, Pulitzer Center
Tarikh diterbitkan: 22 April 2022
(Hutan ditebang untuk ladang kelapa sawit di Jemaluang, Johor | Video oleh IMR Kreatif)
Cut, Carved, and Cleared: When Big Forests Go
How the largest excision in two decades transformed the landscape, economy, and community
Producer/writer: YH Law; Editor: SL Wong
Produced in collaboration with the Rainforest Investigations Network at the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting.
Published: 21 September 2021
(Forest cleared for oil palm in Jemaluang, Johor | Video by IMR Kreatif)
[Updated 29 July 2021]
Funds and political support are reinvigorating the Pan Borneo Highway project in Sabah. But is there time to consider ways to mitigate its environmental and socioeconomic impact?
WITH 2,239 kilometres of new roads to be built by 2025, the Pan Borneo Highway is expected to boost connectivity, tourism and trade in and between Sabah and Sarawak.
Parts of the current route, however, would severely impact the environment and local communities, say local NGOs and researchers.
Continue reading Must the Pan Borneo Highway Dissect the Tawai Forest?
