Timely call to tackle crimes against the environment

THE recent call by Tengku Hassanal Ibrahim Alam Shah, the Tengku Mahkota of Pahang, for a thorough investigation into unlicensed ewaste processing factories is both timely and crucial.

This concern highlights the urgent need to address environmental crimes, which are often ignored due to their complexity, the connections of the perpetrators or the gradual, almost imperceptible harm they cause.