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Agong urged to push for 25-year logging moratorium to prevent more floods
After December’s floods claimed at least 54 lives, several non-governmental organisations (NGOs) urged the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to push for a 25-year nationwide moratorium on logging.
They also want the entire Titiwangsa forest complex, which runs along the Titiwangsa mountain range in Peninsular Malaysia, to be gazetted as a national park to ensure its protection.
This afternoon, the NGOs submitted a memorandum of their demands to...
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