No logging in parts of Bukit Kinta forest reserve
Thursday July 6, 2006
IPOH: Parts of the Bukit Kinta Forest Reserve where the Sungai Kinta dam and treatment plant are located will be gazetted as a no logging zone.
Perak Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Tajol Rosli Ghazali said more than 4,000ha of the forest reserve in the vicinity of the RM234mil dam and treatment plant would be gazetted as permanent forest reserve.
“We will not allow logging around the area because we want to protect the water quality,” he said after chairing the weekly exco meeting yesterday.
“I have asked the Forestry director (Datuk Razani Ujang) to come up with a layout plan of the whole area to protect our water quality.”
The dam, located about 17.5km from the Pos Slim road leading to Kampung Raja in the Cameron Highlands, was expected to be ready by end of next year, he said.
Tajol Rosli said previous experiences revealed that cleaning up the muddy waters in the Kinta River could be costly.
“It cost us RM4.2mil to clean up the river after a landslip occurred in the vicinity,” he said.
He added that the state government was also planning to turn the area into a recreational spot for the people.
“We will be preserving some trees such as tualang, meranti and cengal so that parents can bring their children there to learn more about the different variety of trees,” he added.
On complaints that family entertainment centres at housing estates in Teluk Intan, Manjung and Taiping have become gambling dens, Tajol Rosli said the police and district offices must work together to monitor such centres.
If they were licensed, the district office must monitor them and if they were illegal, the police should come in, he said.
Source: The Star
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