Imperative to gazette Bukit Kiara green lung now

IT BEGAN, innocuously enough, with the construction of a 3.5m-high fence along a 4.7km stretch of Bukit Kiara, one of the most well-known and treasured but yet to be gazetted nature parks in Kuala Lumpur.

The National Landscape Department, which comes under the Housing and Local Government Ministry, said the fence was part of an upgrading project to demarcate the area and increase security for visitors.