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OO is a nominee of 2008's Geotourism Award organized by National Geographic and Ashoka Changemakers. The award identifies and recognises organization that enhances the geographical character of a place: its environment, heritage, culture, aesthetics, and the well-being of its residents.
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Archive for 'Conservation - Environment'
On a nature study spree
Rainforest drape Malaysia with green exuberance, but how many kids have seen the real thing?
Modernity has nudged the new generation to shopping arcades, video games centers and disney-fied theme parks more often than not and today we have a growing population that is oblivious about how their forefathers blend so well with the jungle [...]
Posted: May 4th, 2009 under Conservation - Environment, View - Guestbook album.
Tags: heritage, jungle, jungle guide, nature study, rain forest
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National Geographic picked us - again
Editor: We got nominated in 2008, read this. We made it again for 2009. This just came in a few days ago and we are surprised. We are honoured because only selected responsible travel networks which truly give back to rural communities around the world are identified and nominated. So far, only OO Malaysia and [...]
Posted: April 24th, 2009 under Conservation - Eco tourism, Conservation - Environment.
Tags: eco tourism, geotourism, Malaysia, sustainable, tourism
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Langkawi in bad shape
Forest and wildlife degradation happening under local enforcement dept’s nose; we hear this over and over again, all the time. People who are paid to do their job looked the other way and locals themselves are none better either. This is an honest observation by those who visited Malaysia frequently and love our country like [...]
Posted: March 2nd, 2009 under Conservation - Environment, View - Diary entries.
Tags: conservation, hotel, Langkawi, national park, nature, rain forest, sustainable tourism, tour, tourist, trek, wildlife
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Malaysian Wildlife - The grip of extinction is tightening
“Business as usual is simply not an option”, said Julia Marton-Lefevre, the director general of IUCN.
It is horrifying to know that Malaysia ranks 3rd in the recently furnished IUCN 2008 Red List of Endangered Species report, after Ecuador and US, in terms of highest number of endangered species. Among the 1,141 threatened species in Malaysia, [...]
Posted: November 13th, 2008 under Conservation - Environment, Nature - Wildlife, View - Diary entries.
Tags: conservation, ecology, jungle, wildlife
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Deforestation - The Malaysian Story
In the past, forest loss is associated with consumption of paper products and wood-based industry. At the dawn of 21st century, a more alarming threat is looming. With petroleum prices hitting the roof, rainforests are increasingly downsized to make way for bio-fuel crops - this is not good.
Who’s to be blamed?
While many in developed countries [...]
Posted: October 22nd, 2008 under Conservation - Environment.
Tags: conservation, environment, Kinabatangan, Malaysia, nature, rainforest loss, wildlife
Comments: 5
Kedah’s rice fields need the rainforest
“We are too obsessed with preserving the trees that we won’t cut them. We leave the trees till they get old and rot. The trees die and fall and affect the growth of others” - Kedah MB Azizan Abdul Razak, June 25, 2008, read more in NST …
The MB also sugar-coated his statement and liken [...]
Posted: June 25th, 2008 under Conservation - Environment.
Tags: rainforest
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