Would Casino Resorts Harm The Malaysian Environment?

Would Casino Resorts Harm The Malaysian Environment?

Over the last 20 years or so, Southeast Asia and the larger Pacific region have become known for having some of the premier casino resort areas in the entire world. While Las Vegas in the United States may still be king in this regard, some of the most luxurious casino…

How Drones Are Being Used to Fight Deforestation in 2019

How Drones Are Being Used to Fight Deforestation in 2019

By Mark Sheehan Deforestation has been a serious global problem for several decades. Illegal logging has been happening for decades; wildfires and other disasters take their toll as well. Enforcing laws can be a dangerous game and reforestation cannot keep up. Drones are changing the way we combat these losses….

5 High-Tech Ways to Make Your Home Greener

5 High-Tech Ways to Make Your Home Greener

Guest post by Jewel Brookfield Here at Clean Malaysia we’ve already established the importance of implementing environment-friendly practices at home, be it through habits, design changes, or modern technology. It’s all important stuff, but we’d like to take a closer look at that third aspect – technology. After all, recent years…

Closing off Idyllic Beaches to Mass Tourism can Help Save Them

Closing off Idyllic Beaches to Mass Tourism can Help Save Them

Tourism is a vital part of economies in Southeast Asia, but much of tourism across the region comes with considerable costs to the environment. Popular destinations like beaches continue to be despoiled by the relentless swarm of tourists. Yet local authorities are often reluctant to limit mass tourism to such…

Cats and Dogs are now on the Menu in Malaysia. This must Stop

Cats and Dogs are now on the Menu in Malaysia. This must Stop

In Vietnam cats and dogs are often on the menu. Many Vietnamese consider the animals as a delicacy and so thousands upon thousands of strays are snatched from streets and numerous pets are taken from outside homes. The cates and dogs are then slaughtered, often with appalling cruelty, in specialist…

Macaques too like … wait for it … Raunchy Ads

Macaques too like … wait for it … Raunchy Ads

Some like raunchy ads. Others find them distasteful. These others, though, do not include rhesus macaques, apparently. So say a group of researchers, who have done a study with the well-known Old World monkeys and found that the primates reacted better to advertising with sexually explicit imagery. Seriously. In a special…

The Amazon’s Forests are in Big Trouble

The Amazon’s Forests are in Big Trouble

Borneo’s stunningly biodiverse forests have been shrinking at alarming rates with trees being felled unceasingly for timber or so that palm oil plantations can take their place. Yet it’s not just the island’s forests that are reaching a crisis point. So are the forests of the Amazon, which too are…

Tesco Malaysia wants to help Shoppers in Wasting fewer plastic Bags

Tesco Malaysia wants to help Shoppers in Wasting fewer plastic Bags

The scourge of plastic waste is blighting the environment in Malaysia and numerous initiatives aimed at weaning consumers off using disposable plastic bags have borne mixed results. Now comes another such initiative, this time by the British supermarket chain Tesco. In its “unforgettable bag” campaign, which has been set in…

At least 150 Wild Animal Species are being Trafficked in Malaysia

At least 150 Wild Animal Species are being Trafficked in Malaysia

Last year officials of  the Wildlife and National Parks Department (Perhilitan) rescued creatures belonging to 150 species. You’ve read that right: In 2017 wildlife officials handled nearly 3,000 cases of wildlife trafficking in which animals from a whopping 150 species, according to Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar, minister of Natural Resources and…

Wild Bearded Pigs are taking Advantage of Oil Palm Plantations in Sabah

Wild Bearded Pigs are taking Advantage of Oil Palm Plantations in Sabah

The endless stretches of palm oil plantations may please the eye of cultivators but they have been ecological disasters in Sabah. Across much of Malaysia plantations have replaced once thriving thick forests with monotonous ranks of cultivated palms where few wild species can survive. Some species like water monitor lizards,…

Navigation App could help Save Wildlife

Navigation App could help Save Wildlife

Hundreds upon hundreds of endangered animals perish on Malaysian roads each year. Thankfully, however, officials are doing something about it. In the works are more wildlife crossings in what is a welcome development. Such crossings alone, though, won’t solve the problem of animals ending up as roadkill while they try…

Acidification makes Corals more Brittle. It may even Dissolve Them

Acidification makes Corals more Brittle. It may even Dissolve Them

The world’s corals, Malaysia’s own stunning reefs included, are facing a host of environmental challenges to their continued survival as a result of manmade global warming and other harmful human activities. These include rising water temperatures, invasive forms of fishing like blast fishing, mass tourism and plastic pollution. Then there…

Drones could Help save Sea Turtles

Drones could Help save Sea Turtles

Drones, acting as eyes in the sky, can help protect forests against illegal loggers. They can help keep better track of wildlife. And they can also be used to help save endangered species. Like turtles. Researchers at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom deployed drones to keep a…

A Dutch Supermarket goes Plastic-Free

A Dutch Supermarket goes Plastic-Free

Much of plastic pollution comes from a simple source: plastic packaging. Plastic is a cheap and versatile substance that can be readily made and used. Then again, it can just as easily be dumped after a singe use, which has led to massive amounts of plastic waste befouling more and…

KL is not all that Livable, say Expats

KL is not all that Livable, say Expats

Living in Kuala Lumpur can be fun. But not as much fun as it used to be. That’s according to expatriates, based on a new survey about the world’s most livable cities. Conducted by the British consulting firm ECA International, the survey places Kuala Lumpur at a dismal 126th place,…