Below is the link to a magazine published by the Department of Environment, Putrajaya published last year. There is an article on carbon dioxide and its implication to human and environment written by me inside the magazine.
http://www.doe.gov.my/files/multimedia141/EraHijau-Vol-2-08-Final.pdf
On 5 April 2009, as part of the training of trainers workshop conducted at Nature Education Centre FRIM-MNS-SHELL, the participants of the workshop had given the opportunity to try explore the forest on the canopy walkway.
The canopy walkway was built in 1992 on the hillside and spans for about 200 meters. The entire walkway consists of 4 bridges suspended from tree to tree by an elaborate array of ropes. The walkways are just planks hardly a foot wide placed on aluminium ladders supported by the ropes. These 4 bridges are connected by 3 platforms as high as 30 meters from the ground. A word of caution, be prepared! Mentally and physically. The hike up the canopy walk may be streneous to many; it is an uphill hike most of the way.
This 3 days 2 nights nature camp had been organized by the Department of Environment Terengganu and the Terengganu Centre of Science and Creativity with the support of Terengganu State Government. I had been asked to run the programme and to do so, I received a full commitment from my colleague, En. Ahmad Salihin Bin Mat Saat and En. Muhammad Bin Ibrahim of the Curriculum Development Division, Ministry of Education Malaysia. My wife, Pn. Suzani Binti Hj. Husin also gave her hands to make the programme success. I also like to thanks Dr. Mohd Zaki Bin Mohd Said of the Terengganu Centre of Science and Creativity, together with his four officers, lead by En. Raduan Bin Sulong for their full support. Last but not least, thanks to the officers from Department of Environment Terengganu for the funding and certificates.
The programme took place at Kem Seri Bari, near Penarek, Setiu, Terengganu from 25 to 27 October 2008. The participants were from Setiu, Kuala Terengganu and one from Kuantan, making them 40 pax altogether. Almost 98% of them are 12 years old as this programme was conducted as a pasca UPSR examination programme.
The theme for this programme was related to marine environment, concurrent with the 2008 Year of Coral Reef and the Environment Week. Therefore, most of the topic discussed in this programme were about coral reefs, mangroves, sea grass bed and beach ecosystem. In addition to these topics, painted terrapin, river terrapin and sea turtles conservation, and the tropical rainforest ecosystem also being discussed.
The participants had been brought to visit mangrove forests at Kampung Mangkok, Gong Batu and Kampung Fikri. A mangrove seeds planting session also being done at Kampung Fikri mangrove area. Several other activities conducted during the programme were nature craft, nature hunt, physical exercises, presentations by the participants and BBQ. Another activity conducted during this programme was a presentation by a lecturer from University Darul Iman Malaysia on astronomy. However, due to bad weather, star observation activity by using a telescope had been cancelled and replaced by observing a fan!
The programme was officially closed by the officer from the Department of Environment Terengganu.
Alami Alamku .....begitulah tajuk sebuah buku modul program Kem Kesedaran Alam Sekitra (KeKAS) yang akan diterbitkan oleh Jabatan Alam Sekitar, Kementerian Sumber Asli dan Alam Sekitar Malaysia. Buku modul ini adalah di peringkat pengujian untuk segala aktiviti yang dicadangkan di dalam buku modul tersebut.
Untuk menjayakan pengujian itu, Jabatan Alam Sekitar Putrajaya telah menjalankan satu program Kem Kesedaran Alam Sekitar (KeKAS) 2008 bertempat di Unit Latihan Perhutanan, Institut Penyelidikan Perhutanan Malaysia (FRIM) di Kepong. Program ini bermula pada 19 Ogos 2008 dan berakhir pada 21 Ogos 2008 dengan melibatkan pelajar-pelajar dari SMK Presint 9 (1) Putrajaya dan pegawai-pegawai Jabatan Alam Sekitar dari beberapa negeri serta wakil FRIM.
Perjalanan program ini dikendalikan oleh fasilitator yang dilantik khas oleh pihak penganjur iaitu En. Harun Abu Bakar, En. Ahmad Salihin Mat Saat dan En. Hashimi Ismail (sayalah tu....). Kami telah menguji rintis beberapa aktiviti yang dicadangkan di dalam buku modul tersebut antaranya adalah berkaitan udara, air, tanah, 3R, kompos, permainan alam sekitar dan biodiversiti.
Terima kasih kepada semua peserta yang memberikan komitmen sepenuhnya semasa program ini dijalankan. Jutaan terima kasih ditintakan buat penganjur (Pn. Putri Shazlia dan rakan-rakan setugas dari Jabatan Alam Sekitar Putrajaya) serta untuk Yang Mulia Pn. Raja Aminah, KPP Jabatan Alam Sekitar di atas peluang yang diberikan untuk saya bersama-sama dalam program ini. Untuk En.Harun dan En. Ahmad Salihin, terima kasih di atas perkongsian ilmu yang kita usahakan.
