Berjaya Sompo in collaboration with GEC kicks off river slope mitigation through tree planting initiative

Volunteers from Berjaya Sompo together with programme officers from GEC and the orang asli community at kickstart of the river slope mitigation through tree planting to protect water resources at the Klang River Basin initiative.

KUALA LUMPUR: Berjaya Sompo Insurance Bhd (Berjaya Sompo), together with Global Environment Centre (GEC), in partnership with the Department of Irrigation andDrainage (DID) Gombak, Department of Orang Asli Development (JAKOA) Gombak and Petaling District, Jungle School Gombak Malaysia and Friends of Sungai Gombak Batu 12 at Kampung Batu 12, Gombak has embarked on a river slope mitigation through tree planting to protect water resources at the Klang River Basin initiative.

The initiative kicked-off with over 40 volunteers from both Berjaya Sompo and local indigenous (Orang Asli) community members coming together to plant over 730 trees, including species such as Melastoma malabathricum (Senduduk), Dillenia suffruticosa (Simpoh Air) and Saraca thaipingensis (Gapis), and erosion control plants like Chrysopogon zizanioides (Vetiver) and Schizostachyum jaculan (Buluh termiang) at the Gombak River slope at the Kampung Batu 12.