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REACH Creating Awareness
Concerned citizens try their best to save the beauty of their homeland.
Regional Environmental Awareness Cameron Highlands
COMMUNITY STANDS UP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT Serious environmental problems makes community action necessary. The once tranquil Cameron Highlands faces environmental degradation due to unsustainable agricultural and urban expansion. The Cameron Highlands is known to be a cool highland retreat with picturesque colonial styled bungalows cast against a backdrop of lush green rainforest or undulating slopes of terraced tea plantations. However over the past two decades the rate of development has been especially rampant and much of this beauty is being ravaged. While it has benefited the local economy, poor planning and lack of enforcement has led to severe environmental degradation of the highlands. Forest logging, landslides, silted rivers and dams, constant water disruptions and poor water quality have plagued local residents for years now. It was these problems that spurred a small group of concerned residents of the highlands to form the society of Regional Environmental Awareness Cameron Highlands. REACH was founded in 2001 and is run entirely by volunteers with
funds from membership, sale of merchandize, donations and small grants. Our activities include creating public awareness on environmental issues, a recycling program and conducting studies on water quality and forest biodiversity. We have constantly emphasized that the Cameron Highlands is an important water catchment area and that forests reserves gazetted as water catchments should not be encroached or degazetted for development. To get track of the water quality of the rivers, REACH has initiated a community based approach to water quality monitoring. Help us by supporting or joining us in our aim "to conserve Cameron Highlands as an area of natural resources and as a natural heritage, a highland resort surrounded by permanent forest reserve and sustainable agriculture with quality drinking water".
Logo The logo of REACH. In the center is the local orchid Dendrobium brinchanginese.
Concerned citizens try their best to save the beauty of their homeland.
Regional Environmental Awareness Cameron Highlands
COMMUNITY STANDS UP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT Serious environmental problems makes community action necessary. The once tranquil Cameron Highlands faces environmental degradation due to unsustainable agricultural and urban expansion. The Cameron Highlands is known to be a cool highland retreat with picturesque colonial styled bungalows cast against a backdrop of lush green rainforest or undulating slopes of terraced tea plantations. However over the past two decades the rate of development has been especially rampant and much of this beauty is being ravaged. While it has benefited the local economy, poor planning and lack of enforcement has led to severe environmental degradation of the highlands. Forest logging, landslides, silted rivers and dams, constant water disruptions and poor water quality have plagued local residents for years now. It was these problems that spurred a small group of concerned residents of the highlands to form the society of Regional Environmental Awareness Cameron Highlands. REACH was founded in 2001 and is run entirely by volunteers with
funds from membership, sale of merchandize, donations and small grants. Our activities include creating public awareness on environmental issues, a recycling program and conducting studies on water quality and forest biodiversity. We have constantly emphasized that the Cameron Highlands is an important water catchment area and that forests reserves gazetted as water catchments should not be encroached or degazetted for development. To get track of the water quality of the rivers, REACH has initiated a community based approach to water quality monitoring. Help us by supporting or joining us in our aim "to conserve Cameron Highlands as an area of natural resources and as a natural heritage, a highland resort surrounded by permanent forest reserve and sustainable agriculture with quality drinking water".
Logo The logo of REACH. In the center is the local orchid Dendrobium brinchanginese.
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