Pengunjung kotorkan Berkelah

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Pengunjung kotorkan Berkelah
Oleh Mohd Rafi Mamat

2011/12/14
KUANTAN: Ketiadaan kesedaran sivik pengunjung untuk menjaga kebersihan bukan saja menjejaskan keindahan alam sekitar, malah menyumbang kepada penyakit berjangkit.

Pengunjung sering membuang sampah di merata tempat walaupun disediakan tong dan tempat pelupusan bahan kitar semula.

Kerajaan negeri dan pihak berkuasa tempatan (PBT) juga terpaksa membelanjakan peruntukan besar untuk membersih dan melupuskan timbunan sampah dan ia akan memakan masa lama.

Namun, atas dasar prihatin dan menyedari pentingnya usaha menjaga kebersihan di kawasan perkelahan air terjun, tampil badan bukan kerajaan (NGO), Waterfall Survivors untuk membantu mendidik masyarakat supaya prihatin mengenai kebersihan.

Pencinta alam sekitar, Osman Muhamad, berkata kesedaran orang ramai penting demi menjaga kebersihan kawasan perkelahan supaya tidak terus tercemar.

“Tanpa kesedaran masyarakat usaha menjaga kebersihan tidak mungkin berjaya walaupun pelbagai usaha dilakukan agensi kerajaan dan NGO,” katanya yang bertugas lebih 20 tahun dengan Jabatan Perhutanan Negeri.

Beliau berkata demikian pada program Selamatkan Air Terjun anjuran Waterfall Survivors di Hutan Lipur Berkelah, dekat sini.

Program dengan kerjasama Kementerian Pelancongan Malaysia Pahang dan Jabatan Perhutanan Negeri disertai lebih 160 peserta terdiri dari pelajar sekolah, penuntut institut pengajian tinggi (IPT), penduduk setempat dan pengunjung pusat perkelahan itu.

Sementara itu, Jurucakap Waterfall Survivors, Royyie Lim, berkata pihaknya berjaya mengumpul lebih satu tan sampah seperti botol, plastik, pakaian, bekas makanan dan tin minuman yang dilonggokkan di tujuh tingkat kawasan air terjun. Katanya, peserta berjalan lebih dua kilometer sambil mendaki bukit berbatu yang licin bagi memungut sampah.

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." -Haida Proverb Waterfalls are beautiful but extremely DANGEROUS. Only attempt with experience guides.Take Nothing but photographs, Leave Nothing but Footprints

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BFM 89.9 The Business Station Interviews Joe Yap - Founder of WS

Catch the interview done by Richard from BFM about Waterfall Survivors with Joe Yap, our Founder and President.

I Love KL on the 17th of December 2011, your connection to the people, places and events of the capital city. Could a waterfall visit really make you leave a career in banking? Richard talks to Joe Yap from Waterfall Survivors, a woman who not only did just that, but made a list of about a hundred waterfalls in the country to visit— one weekend at a time.




"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." -Haida Proverb Waterfalls are beautiful but extremely DANGEROUS. Only attempt with experience guides.Take Nothing but photographs, Leave Nothing but Footprints
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Volunteers work to restore natural beauty of waterfall

Volunteers work to restore natural beauty of waterfall
By ELWEEN LOKE
elween@thestar.com.my


WITH garbage bags in hand, they thronged the Lata Kinjang waterfall.

The recent outing to the waterfall was hardly a picnic for a group of waterfall lovers who call themselves the Waterfall Survivors.

Having travelled from all over Perak and Kuala Lumpur, they were at the popular tourist spot located 7km from Chenderiang, Tapah, to give it a sprucing up.


While picnickers were enjoying the beauty of the waterfalls, with its crystal-clear waters cascading down from a height of 850m, the 210 volunteers had the not-so-enjoyable task of picking up garbage around the hillslopes.

Event organiser Royyie Ling said the gotong-royong, which was co-organised by Ministry of Tourism Malaysia in Perak and supervised by Larut Matang Forestry Department officers, was the volunteers’ way of giving back to Mother Nature.

“This activity is being carried out in our bid to restore some of the natural state of the Lata Kinjang waterfall.

“It is part of our ‘Save Our Waterfalls’ campaign, which we have so far conducted in Selangor, Negri Sembilan and Pahang,” said Ling.

The gotong-royong at Lata Kinjang, she added, was the last of the group’s activities for the year.

“We look forward to organising more activities such as this to raise public awareness of the existence of such beautiful waterfalls in our country,” she said.

Ling added that the Waterfall Survivors, which has about 8,000 registered members on Facebook, had left its footprints at over 100 waterfalls in the country.

Commending the group for their hard work, state Tourism Ministry office director Syahruddin Abdul Hamid said the Ministry appreciated the group’s efforts in keeping the country’s waterfalls clean.

“This is in line with our 1Malaysia Green, 1Malaysia Clean campaign,” he said.

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." -Haida Proverb Waterfalls are beautiful but extremely DANGEROUS. Only attempt with experience guides.Take Nothing but photographs, Leave Nothing but Footprints

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