the maximum fine for environmental crimes has been increased from RM100,000 to RM10 million.
: An increase in wildlife protection enforcement activities and the introduction a new fine amount of RM10 million for environmental criminals were among the successes of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability this year.
Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability Minister Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad said NRES has increased wildlife protection enforcement activities, including for Harimau Malaya in 2024, by increasing community rangers to 1,924 people involving a cost of RM60 million.
Nik Nazmi said about 350,000 hectares of land and ocean areas have also been gazetted as new protected areas as of Sept last year under the Ecological Fiscal Transfer incentive In addition, NRES has also implemented an initiative to help villagers and Orang Asli with property and crop losses due to wildlife attacks, introduced this year.He said Malaysia’s greening programme through the planting of 100 million trees had also been successfully completed a year earlier with the 100 millionth tree planted by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.2.
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