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Monday, May 07, 2007
TEARS IN LOJING
A lot of people have said a lot of things over the past few weeks about the Lojing issue, which isn’t too surprising, given the so many parties said to be involved in this huge environmental mess.
And a lot more fingers (and toes, too, I bet) have been pointed and wagged. They still are. This is, after all, a country where blame is still very much the game.
If it wasn’t for the seriousness of the issue, it’d have also been quite fun to read, and watch, the verbal ping pong between the Federal and Kelantan State governments and the rest of the other players.
Well, at least eight companies are facing legal action for their part in the fiasco.
However, Lojing’s environmental degradation is not about to stop while the culprits wait for their day in court. The thousands and thousands of hectares of forest and its sensitive ecosystem will not heal by itself. Neither would the bald hills and terrains re-vegetate by themselves overnight.
So, come on people. Stop pointing the fingers. Use them to poke at those fat asses to get moving instead!
I drove by Lojing last week, en route to KL via Cameron Highlands, my most favourite route to take when returning to the city from Kota Bharu.
From the highway, you wouldn’t be able to tell where exactly the location of this particular environmental rape is, but damage was everywhere I looked, all the way to the neigbouring Cameron Highlands. Hills are barren, red earth exposed. It was a sad, sad sight.
And yes, highland vegetable farming is in full swing.
Virtual Malaysia, the official portal of the Ministry of Tourism, says Lojing’s elevated location “makes it ideal for planting fruits like persimmon and honey oranges, as well as fresh vegetables”.
Something that the good people at KADA had long realised, I guess, before they decided to lease out more than 2,000 hectares of Lojing land to farmers from Cameron Highlands.
It would be interesting to see what both the Federal and the State governments’ next course of action is.
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"Use them to poke at those fat asses to get them moving"...ha ha ha...I can imagine...And I truly can imagine that the fat asses will do more damage than any of us can truly imagine.......I can imagine - we are in Bolehland after all dear......
Pathetic, pathetic, PATHETIC!!!
samantha said...
9:41 AM
It is really sad. Everywhere I looked during my drive that day, bukit digondol, either for pertanian, perumahan or simply just for quarrying purposes....
wetbenang said...
12:00 PM
Wetbenang
hmm.. sad.. some people are just being so ignorant on purpose. What matters most to them is profit. Sad but true.. :|
Xis said...
2:22 PM
Ya...money money money....Now, another scandal, about farmers using banned pesticides...aiyo, what's next..?
wetbenang said...
2:05 PM
Oh that one....The Press wrote a long analysis in the weekend paper - that's in China (I have the paper clipping - nanti sonang2 can post in my blog) and of course the food is being exported....fruits from China? uwargghhhhhh..that's why eat only royal gala from NZealand :) the world is really freaking me out!!! And I am still not prepared to go to the next world.....uwaaarrrggghhh...how Bang Man????
samantha said...
7:45 PM