meefischli | fly fishing

Ok, its not­hing about to many cormo­rants or silly little hydro­dy­na­mic power plants. But we all love pris­tine nature. Please sign and share this online petition.

More infor­ma­tion here, takes just a minute:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/SAVE_MALAYSIAS_SEA_TURTLES/

The plans to open one of only few nes­ting sites of the end­an­ge­red Green Sea Turtle to indus­trial deve­lop­ment sever­ely threa­tens this pro­tec­ted species.

One of ONLY six hatching sites of this spe­cies exist on Pen­in­su­lar Malay­sia.Now, the plans were signed by the local govern­ment to open a steel mill and gas plant at this undis­tur­bed nature site.

The con­struc­tion work will begin in a few months, maybe even weeks!

The necessary infra­struc­ture for both pro­jects also harms the sur­roun­ding Vir­gin Jungle Reserve. Parts of it were given free for log­ging. The reserve hosts many ende­mic and uni­que plant and ani­mal spe­cies, like the cri­ti­cally end­an­ge­redDip­tero­carp tree Shorea lumu­ten­sis or the pan­go­line.

Not only the nature is under threat, also the locals depen­ding on fis­he­ries and tou­rism will lose much of their income and the toxic emis­si­ons from the plants will cause acid rain and health pro­blems! Read more…