Floods: Kelantan blames illegal land clearing, logging

KOTA BARU: The Kelantan government has blamed illegal land clearing and logging as among the causes for the devastating floods in the State.

Kelantan Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Yakob said that the state government had always capped logging at 5,960ha a year which is the standard set by the National Land Council.

"Our forestry management practices have also received MC&I SFM certification by indepedent world bodies while any new logging areas have to have environmental impact assessments (EIA)," Ahmad said in a statement here.

"Uncontrolled logging may be due to illegal land clearing by irresponsible quarters." Ahmad also pledged that the state government would step up enforcement to stamp out these activities.

As more than 100,000 people have been displaced in the Northeastern state by the worse floods in recent memory, fingers have been pointed at the rampant logging and land clearing in Kelantan's hinterland Gua Musang.

After his visit to Gua Musang on Wednesday, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak also alluded to rampant land clearing as a factor which could have worsened the floods this year.

"Rampant opening of land, especially for logging, has an effect on the environment because there is no natural retention to stop the water from flowing directly to the river swiftly," Najib had said.

The national news agency also reported that the flow of major rivers had been blocked by logs jammed under bridges, causing the river to overflow its banks and the water to flood surrounding areas.

The Kelantan government has in the past been blamed for turning a blind eye to rampant logging and land clearing which has led to severe deforestation in Gua Musang, where Kelantan's major rivers begin.

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Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said he felt that the RM500 million fund that he announced during his visit to Kelantan on Saturday was insufficient.

"I think the amount may not be enough. Maybe there is a need to consider increasing the allocation," he said at the new year's thanksgiving programme and special prayer at SK Pengkalan Kubor 2 here.

Najib joined about 300 people at the school to perform maghrib, isyak and special prayers. He said the proper administration of the government allowed the country to maintain its economy besides having financial resources to meet the people's needs.

"Our economy is growing and next year, hopefully we will generate higher revenue through the goods and services tax implementation. We will use the extra funds to help the funds to help the flood victims," he said.

Earlier, Najib visited Tanah Merah to survey the effects of the flood and meet the victims.

Najib also praised Kemaman for setting a 'gold' standard in flood management. "It started making preparations as early as last April.

"They identified 30 forward bases, they cleared three landing pads for helicopters, they provided additional generator sets and even bought comfortable sleeping bags.

"All these preparations showed efficient and effective flood management," he said after a briefing on the flood situation here at the Kemaman Municipal Council in Chukai.

Meanwhile, Dewan Negara President Tan Sri Abu Zahar Ujang believes rapacious illegal logging and land clearing may have contributed to the severe floods in Peninsular Malaysia.

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Dozens of ethnic minority Tompuon villagers protested yesterday against the destruction of an area in Ratanakkiri provinces Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary that is used as a community forest.

Community representative Tuy Nheb, one of more than 30 villagers demonstrating outside of Seda commune hall on behalf of 215 affected families, said that a company owned by Okhna Roth Sakhorn has been clearing hundreds of hectares of vital community forestland since August.

That area is a jungle, and we have filed a letter to the provincial authorities over the last two weeks asking for it to be registered as a communal forest, but the company has cleared about 200 hectares already, he said. We demand for a halt [to its destruction], and for discussion.

The villagers ended their four-hour protest yesterday after the company, which shares its owners name, agreed to suspend its activities for one week.

Nou Ther, deputy governor of Lumphat district, said that the area fell within an economic land concession awarded to the company.

The villagers disagree because they do not understand ... The company has rights and the logging was done legally and it was inspected by the forest officers as well, Ther said.

But Chhay Thy, Ratanakkiri provincial coordinator for local rights group Adhoc, said the company was at risk of violating a government order that reduced its ELC from 9,000 hectares to 600.

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Land clearing is serious business. The trees you are about to remove may well be a hundred to a hundred-and-fifty years old, especially if they're growing in less than ideal conditions. Once the clearing is done, your land will need consistent annual effort to keep it from growing up in brush and weeds. If you don't plan well, both for getting the clearing done and for keeping the land clear, then you risk losing your time, your sizable investment and perhaps a century-old forest. Think it over before you clear.

Stripped to the essentials, there are two ways to clear land: by hand or by machine. That's if you've never done much clearing by hand. If you have, then you may very well feel that the only way is by machine.

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Personally, my acquired education on the subject tells me that the only amount of land where clearing by hand is worth the time and effort is in situations where machinery would not have room to work without damaging buildings or other desirable trees and plants in the process. In other words, pretty small places.

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