Groups seek Perak ruler's intervention over Kledang Saiong project

Several organisations have called for Perak ruler Sultan Nazrin Shah’s intervention to help protect the Kledang Saiong Forest Reserve from being turned into a timber plantation.

They urged the sultan to pressure the state government to abide by the National Land Council resolution in 2021 to impose a 15-year moratorium on setting up new timber plantations in permanent forest reserves in Peninsular Malaysia.

They also hope that the ruler would...