Amid virus battle, don’t forget fight for environment
If Selangor’s proposed degazettement of the Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve is approved, a wide range of flora and fauna species will be gone, and thousands of Orang Asli displaced. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, May 18, 2020.
DURING these two months of the movement-control order , I believe there are those among us who miss the “outdoor atmosphere” and other freedoms we enjoyed before the Covid-19 crisis. In the beginning, everyone was eager for the MCO to end so that they could return to normal life. But weeks of restrictions and social distancing have changed how we work, play and learn. Even under the more flexible conditional MCO , we still can’t simply go back to our lifestyle pre-pandemic.
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