'Spare Gunung Pulai, have it declared a protected site'

NSTnation: The National Heritage Department wants Gunung Pulai to be spared from quarrying and have it declared a protected site.

Its stand against such projects is not based on sentiments, but on hard evidence that indicates that mining the mountain’s resources would wipe out its pre-historic fossils and artefacts that had been well preserved for some 500 million years., said the Environment Impact Assessment report that was prepared for the project had failed to include the compulsory Heritage Impact Assessment .

“The department has made clear the archeological, geological and heritage importance of Gunung Pulai that must be preserved. “This is based on Neolithic and Epipaleolithic stone tools, a bark cloth beater and earthenware that were found in several caves in a 1935 expedition of the mountain range.”

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