As opposition heaps, Amirudin explains plan will not affect Orang Asli, state’s target to increase forest reserves.
the Kuala Langat Forest Reserve, contending that developing it is a good idea seeing that 40 percent of the forest had already “degraded”.
“This is also to prevent forest fires, a problem that threatened the ecosystem here a while ago,” he said at the Selangor State Secretary’s Building in Shah Alam. Of the 10 steps the government needed to go through before it could de-gazette a forest reserve, it was presently at step three - collecting feedback to their Feb 5 public notice announcing the degazettement plans.Emphasising that Selangor was the only state that sought public feedback for such land matters, Amirudin said that the government plans to make up for the de-gazettement by gazetting new areas as forest reserves.
Calling the process “parallel replacement”, he said the state government was presently choosing from a list of peat forests to gazette as forest reserves. All this would ensure that Selangor continued to have 30 percent or more of its land area designated as forest reserves. “There might be an issue with Temuan Orang Asli graves and we will review this during the public feedback process.
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