-Another Beautiful City Mankind Starts to Destroy<br /><br />Truly Asia, Malaysia lives up to its slogan. Truly a remarkable paradise this country was and<br /><br />still rising, Malaysia has become one of the world’s favorite for travel enthusiasts.<br /><br />and rainforests, mountains and minarets, skycrapers and sampans; are only few to more fun<br /><br />Malaysia can offer.<br /><br />If you are a city tripper or a nature lover, Malaysia is a great option for travelers. Considered<br /><br />as one of the ‘Asian tiger’, Malaysia paved its way to becoming one of the travelling capital<br /><br />by offering two countries for the price of one. Peninsular Malaysia, bordering Thailand at the<br /><br />southern end of the Malay peninsula, and East Malaysia, the northern half of the island of<br /><br />Borneo, which pushes up against Indonesia and Brunei.<br /><br />Malaysia enjoyed remarkable growth over the last few decades, with industrialization,<br /><br />agriculture and tourism playing leading roles in this success story. Tigers may be fierce but<br /><br />when nature calls, no one can escape her. A tropical natural bounty like Malaysia, can she<br /><br />keep her treasures when the one who truly owns this treasure steel it from her? And worse,<br /><br />what if her people are the ones who are destroying her; could she escape it or will face her<br /><br />breakdown?<br /><br />Despite a relatively positive environmental record, Malaysia faces problems of deforestation,<br /><br />pollution of inland and marine waters, soil and coastal erosion, overfishing and coral reef<br /><br />destruction, along with air pollution, water pollution and the problem of waste disposal.<br /><br />Problems that in fact can be avoided, problems that mankind created.<br /><br />Malaysia hold tropical rainforest, as well as peat swamp forests, both are now threatened by<br /><br />no other than human activities. Oil palm plantations, logging and mining, forests fires and<br /><br />tourism are the major causes of deforestations. It terrorizes animals causing massive deaths<br /><br />that increase the number of endangered species, such as orangutan, which lives only on the<br /><br />islands of Borneo and Sumatra.<br /><br />Deforestation is just one of the problems Malaysia is facing. It is a cycle, a chain reaction, and<br /><br />in effect of it–flood!<br /><br />Management has been inclined to solving flood problems, little did they know that it is just<br /><br />them creating their own problems. No deforestation means no flood. Just like what happened<br /><br />to Lower Kinabatangan Floodplains in Sabah where flooding also intensified. In this area,<br /><br />stretching along the northeastern coast of Borneo, forests have been reduced to scattered<br /><br />pieces, while endangered animals such as elephants have lost their natural homes.<br /><br />Just like what I have mentioned earlier, it is a chain reaction, as a result of flooding, remaining<br /><br />forest is fragmented. And because of this, elephants are forced to move through plantations<br /><br />and smallholdings to get from one patch to another. They prefer to use forest on dry ground,<br /><br />so during floods they are also forced into agricultural land, sometimes causing considerable
