Hum Gurung of BirdLife International says he has heard of forests being gazetted as reserves but never of forest reserves being degazetted.
Hum Gurung, regional project manager, Southeast Asia and Pacific Forest Governance of BirdLife International.
“There is an old convention which talks about changing the category of a certain protected area, for example changing category from a wildlife sanctuary, or a forest reserve, to a national park. But never to degazette. This is new to me.” “That is why you want to protect that area. Once you declare, you can change the category later, but not to degazette,” he said when met at a recent Malaysian Nature Society forum on degazettement of forest reserves in the country.
“The recent water supply disruption in the Klang Valley should serve as a reminder to the government that this is part of the reason why the forest is so important in contributing clean water resources,” he said. “To gazette a national park, there are certain fulfilments to meet. Malaysia has all of these and enough funds to gazette national parks,” he said.
“But Malaysia does not have a funding problem, no problem for it to gazette national parks,” he said.
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