Program Rakan Alam Sekitar

Friday, 12 March 2010, I was invited to attend the Launching of the Rakan Alam Sekitar’s event and was invited to give a talk as well. It was held for the Lubok Antu parliament area and took place at Rh. Ipang, Ng. Delok, Batang Ai. This program is the initiative taken by the gov through Natural Resources and Environmental Board (NREB) to bring people closer to the awareness of the environmental problems. It was supposed to be attended by all local communities’ leaders and some gov departments and organization also invited.  The YB of Lubok Antu was the one who launched it and Batang Ai’s ADUN also present the night before the launching. From what I saw, the idea was to get the rural community leader such as Tuai Rumah and Penghulu to be involved and they will then spread the information to their community as well as leading them towards the environmentally aware societies. Upon completing this program each and everyone present have been registered as Rakan Alam Sekitar and vowed to protect the environment.  They planned to launch this program state-wide. 

I was not aware of this program before until the NREB people contact me for some information about the Batang Ai area whereas they have already launched the program in several places all this while. 

For me personally, this is a good program because it targets the local communities to be involved directly in supporting our effort to further taking care of our fragile environment in a wider coverage. We all know how much our environment have suffered from human destruction worldwide. Our earth is now in verge of destruction if we people didn’t play our role in conserving our environment. The biggest fear now is the depleting of the ozone layer. Many factors contributing to this and what we should fear is when the ice in the South and North Pole melt. Watching the Discovery Channel few weeks back, they say if all the ice melt, the possibilities of the world to be submerged underwater is getting high and it can occurred sooner than we thought.

That’s not all; the climate is now starting to change.  Last few weeks the Northern Region of Sarawak like Miri didn’t rain and the weather were so hot plus the haze. Imagine if things like this happen all over the world, we might feel like we’re living in the oven and become roasted chickens.

There are a lot of negatives environmental effects occurred throughout the world because of human uncontrolled activities. We in Sarawak have lost so much of our forest mainly due to logging activities. Without the forest our land will become barren and weather is damn hot. But we’re still lucky we still live in the place surrounded by greens (the forest). But not all people know about the status of our forest (only loggers know well because when there are still a lot of trees they will never stops and then we will hear that area transformed into whatever plantation estate there are).

We, ourselves could start with a very little things like recycling, don’t do open burning, used environmental friendly product and all this can be started in our own household. Though we can’t stop some “big headz” from destroying our environment, we still can play our small roles. Think of how much will it effects our future generations.

RODZ NOCTURNE IN SUPPORT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION EFFORTS ENCOURAGE ALL PEOPLE TO BE INVOLVED AND BE VERY SUPPORTIVE, OUR EARTH NEED US AND WHO ELSE CAN BE BETTER IN PROTECTING IT IF NOT US. SO MUCH ISSUES THAT WE WORRY ABOUT AND CONCERNED US BUT IF OUR EARTH FAILED TO BE FUNCTIONING AS IT SHOULD, OTHER ISSUES APART FROM THIS WILL NEVER MATTER ANYMORE.

SAVING OUR ENVIRONMENT WILL SAVE OUR EARTH AND SAVING OUR EARTH WILL SAVE ALL HUMAN