Kembara Mahkota Johor 2009 Jelajah pedalaman

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JOHOR BAHRU, The Tunku Mahkota of Johor, Tunku Ibrahim Ismail, Monday warned against illegal hunting and urged that the activity be stopped.Tunku Ibrahim said poaching did not benefit anyone and that the authority should impose a heavy penalty on poachers to ensure that wildlife, especially endangered species, did not become extinct.
"We cannot be like hunters in the olden days. We should instead protect wildlife, while the state must make serious effort to prevent the extinction of wildlife from poaching," he said.Tunku Ibrahim was speaking at the launching of the logo for the Kembara Mahkota Johor Jelajah Pedalaman 2009, a riding expedition on superbikes into Johor's interior, and a wildlife conservation project, here, today.
At the function, Tunku Ibrahim who is the patron of the Johor Wildlife Conservation Project, also witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the state government and Universiti Tun Hussein Onn, Universiti Sains Malaysia, the Wildlife Conservation Society and Aquawalk Sdn Bhd.The expedition from July 4 to 7 and led by the Johor Tunku Mahkota, will take the group of 150 riders on a 1,030km journey and into 11 Orang Asli villages and three Malay traditional villages.
The group which includes state leaders and heads of department, will focus on wildlife conservation projects by learning about the life of the Orang Asli as some of them have been helping poachers and traders of wildlife.Meanwhile, Menteri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman said the state government had taken a number of initiatives to protect and preserve the state's flora and fauna."Johor was the first state in the peninsula to have set up an agency specially to gazette and safeguard a protected natural forest, the Johor National Park."Since the Johor National Parks Corporation Enactment was enforced in 1989, the state government had gazetted 77,000 hectares of land including the mountain range, wetlands and the group of islands off Mersing as the Johor National Park," he said