PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia may lose its only Unesco Biosphere Reserve status site if it does not listen to the woes of the orang asli, Transparency International-Malaysia has warned.
TI-M secretary-general Josie M. Fernandez was commenting on Datuk Mohamad Olian Abdullah's remarks in a local daily in which the orang asli senator dismissed the concerns of the Tasik Chini community over pollution in the area.
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