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'Do not wipe out Gunung Kanthan'
IPOH: Environmentalists are urging Lafarge Malaysia Berhad to mine for limestone underground instead of extending its quarrying activities to the remaining untouched parts of the 400-million-year-old Gunung Kanthan.
Conserve rest of Gunung Kanthan
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Nature Society (MNS) is lobbying for the entire southern portion of Gunung Kanthan in Ipoh to be conserved as a unit, said president Prof Dr Maketab Mohamad.
‘Preserve all of Gunung Kanthan’
IPOH: Environmentalists are demanding that Gunung Kanthan’s ecosystem be kept whole and that any conservation there not be limited to merely one of the two zones.
WWF, MNS asked to join Gunung Kanthan research
PETALING JAYA: The biodiversity study done at the 400-million-year-old Gunung Kanthan in Perak will include independent experts recommended by conservation groups, said Lafarge Malaysia Bhd.
Bloom is of a new species of plant discovered on Gunung Kanthan
PETALING JAYA: A new species of plant, Meiogyne kanthanensis, with citrus-smelling flowers was discovered on a limestone hill in Perak last year
Kanthan Baru folk battling pollution problem
CHAI Chuen Tat’s trips to China always left him feeling envious of the farmers there.
New flora and fauna species found
PETALING JAYA: Botanists have discovered two new plant species and a new species of gecko within an undisturbed portion of limestone forest on Gunung Kanthan that many fear will be quarried in the near future.
‘Mountain must be quarried first’
PETALING JAYA: The southern part of the 400-million-year-old Gunung Kanthan must be quarried first before underground limestone reserves can be accessed, said Lafarge Malaysia Berhad.
Lafarge’s encroachment into eco-sensitive areas causes alarm
PETALING JAYA: Quarrying at Perak’s Gunung Kanthan by cement giant Lafarge Malaysia has alarmed green groups, who say work has encroached close to “sensitive” areas.
