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Welcome to my personal website, rainforestNET.
I have spent some of my free time coming out with some stuff that I would like to share with the rest of the world. I hope you'll enjoy browsing this site.
If you have any comment or you would like to report any broken link or wrong spelling, please feel free to drop me an email or post a message in my message board.
Join WWF Malaysia
I have recently become a regular donor of WWF Malaysia. I think this is one of the easiest ways to help protecting the nature at the moment. I wish I could participate in any of the conservation project one day.
I wish you could make your contribution to the WWF of your country.
Why rainforest NET?
Well, I live in a tropical country with 47% of the land covered by rainforest. Malaysia . Some of the rainforests are the oldest in the world compared to Africa and South America. It has been existing even before the extinction of the dinosaur which was about 65 million years ago. They are already 130 millions years old! Can you imagine that?
However this site was not created to publish rainforest facts from my research (which I hope I will be doing it in the future) but computer software/freeware that I created during my free time.
I wish my visitors would be aware of how important the rainforest is and the role that the rainforest is playing in our world. Rainforest is a natural precious resource is given to us and it is our responsibility to protect it for our children.
Just google deforestation and you will find out how serious deforestation has been in recent days. So, how do we save our precious rainforest? Click here for answer.
If you would like to have a trip to the Malaysian rain forests. Check this site out. http://www.cuti.com.my
My recommendations:-
  1. Taman Negara (National Park)
  2. Kinabalu Park
  3. Endau Rompin National Park
CUTI.
Learn More about rainforest
Click here for some articles and information that I find worth reading.
Consequences of deforestation that around me.
I still remember the year that I was cycling to school 1994. During the mid-year, our country and Singapore was filled by choking haze that caused by more than 1000 forest fires burning in our neighbouring country, Indonesia. I was wearing a smog mask every day when I stepped out of my house.
Since then, it happens every mid-year without fail. The air quality in some areas dropped dramatically. Visibility in several parts of the country had been reduced to as low as two kilometers (1.2 miles) from the normal 10 kilometers (six miles). The sad part is the fires are mainly caused by illegal slash-and-burn cultivation on plantations by Indonesia farmers. The haze not just threaten Malaysia travel business but most importantly it is harmful to our health.
I believe both Malaysia and Singapore government has raised complaints to the Indonesia government but there isn't any solution since 1994.
Latest News about haze in Malaysia
I have created a blog to keep "haze" related news collected from various sources about haze. If you are planning to visit Malaysia lately, please check out this blog - Malaysia Haze News Archive
Please also check out the latest Air Pollutant Index of each area at the official website of Malaysia's Department of Environment.
about our Rainforest..
Malaysia has ten species of 54 species of hornbills found throughout the world. Above is a Rhinoceros hornbill from Pangkor Island.
World Rain forests distribution
World Rainforest
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Facts
  • Rainforests cover 2% of the earth's surface and 7% of its land mass. They originally covered at least twice that.
  • The rainforest is one of the earth's abundant resources, one of its fastest shrinking ones.
  • According to the National Academy of Science, at least 50 million acres a year are lost, an area roughly the size of England, Wales, and Scotland combined
http://www.ran.org/info_center/about_rainforests.html
Travelogs about rainforest
Mark Moxon, Travel Writer: Malaysia: Taman Negara
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