KL Photography Festival (KLPF) @ Mid Valley Convention Centre

PENCINTA ALAM
NEWSLETTER OF THE MALAYSIAN NATURE SOCIETY
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www.mns.my
November 2015
KL Photography Festival (KLPF) @ Mid Valley Convention Centre
A
ll things are possible when a group of likeminded people band together for a common
cause. TERIMA KASIH VOLUNTEERS for
sacrificing your weekend of 9th to 11th October
2015 to promote the Malaysian Nature Society’s
causes and assist in our membership drive. We
salute you... Chan Swee Peng , Eddie Yong, Alvin,
Gau Nair, Lim Poh Lin, Reiko Yong, Steven Yong,
Sharvin Kumar, Christine Leow, Jimmy Lim, Chew
Tok Wah, Christy Lee, Eunice Wong,
Hakim Cau, Lim Yu Ping, Lisa Lim and
Edward Kee... plus others who turned
up to volunteer despite not registering
with us! We appreciate all of you!
Our gratitude is also extended to
the very supportive MNS HQ staff and
to Applied Imaging Sdn Bhd for sponsoring and
printing our photos for the third year.
A special THANK YOU to those who had
contributed their photos…..whether they were
selected or otherwise...your generosity and support
had made this event a success!!
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The MNS President, Henry Goh was invited to
speak during one of the sessions of the PhotoMania programme at KLPF entitled ‘Nature and Wildlife Photography’. The half-hour session started from 11am on Saturday,
10 October 2015. It was well attended and the room was
full with some attendees having to stand throughout the session! Mr Goh shared his photos while narrating his experiences and giving photography tips to his audience.
Article by Annieson Au
Photos by Alex Foong, George Ng, Lee Hong Leng, Gau
Nair
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Designed by Chin Pik Wun
ECO KIDS COLUMN
HELPING HANDS
AT THE TTDI
EDIBLE PROJECT
Green Living SIG coordinated a
visit-and-volunteer session at the TTDI Edible
Project on 26th September. More than half the
volunteers were children and teenagers. Community edible gardens such as the one we volunteered at bring people together. Volunteers
meet face-to-face to do meaningful work together and share their knowledge.
Young volunteers clearing weeds around the
papaya tree grove.
The volunteers worked hard to weed the overgrown garden.
T
here is a lot of interest in growing our own
fruits and vegetables in recent years. Many
of the people who do edible gardening as a hobby are urban folk. They do it not because they
wish to be full-time farmers or can't afford to
buy food. They do it as a quiet, peaceful way of
protesting the high levels of chemical pesticides
and fertilisers in farmed food. Also, many big
agricultural companies wish to control who can
grow their food, and charge money for planting
certain types of seeds. So edible gardening also
became a peaceful way of saying: "We all have
a right to eat and to grow our own food. Seeds,
plants and nature belong to anyone who is willing
to put in the work."
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Everyone, young and old, helped to weed the
Brazilian Spinach patch.
Uncle Koon Hup found a sprouted tennis ball! So
that's where tennis balls come from!
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hooks. Do not overwater or overfertilise
your plants.
Many thanks to all the volunteers for coming to
help despite the haze!
Here are some tips on how to start edible gardening at home:
1. Be realistic. It may sound fun to grow your
own durians and mangoes, but large trees
take a great many years to grow. Start with
something simple that you like to eat and
that can be harvested within weeks. You can
ask for seeds and young plants from friends,
or buy packets of lettuce and kailan seeds
from organic markets. A fun project would
be to grow a Pizza Garden. You do this by
growing tomatoes in a large pot, and growing
basil, capsicum, oregano, garlic and onions
around it.
2. Choose the sunniest place in the house. If
you live in an apartment, choose a window
that receives the most sun. Put your pots
on a table, window ledge or shelf in front of
the window. You can also suspend small pots
from the window grill or hang them from
3. The next time you eat organic tomatoes,
chillies, mint, celery, or carrots, use the
seeds, stumps or cuttings as starters for
your garden. Put the ripest tomato or chili
on the window sill to ripen and dry out. Once
dry, the seeds will be ideal for sowing. Save
your carrot tops and celery stumps and plant
them into moist soil as soon as you can. Pluck
mint leaves gently off the stems and push
the bare stems into moist soil. Within days,
you should be able to see tiny green shoots.
What other vegetables can you plant in a
small space? How about pandan leaves? They
will make your house smell great and repel
cockroaches, too!
4. The best way to compost is in an outdoor
compost pit that receives plenty of sunlight. However, if you live in an apartment,
it doesn't mean you have to buy fancy expensive composters. Fill two old plant pots
halfway with soil. Stand the pots up on
bricks without blocking the drainage holes in
the bottom. This will allow excess moisture
to trickle out. Ensure your vegetable and
fruit peels and compostable waste are torn
or cut into small scraps to help them break
down more easily in soil. Dig a hole in one pot
and bury your compost. You can cover the
mouths of the open pots with wire mesh to
stop insects from getting in. Once one pot is
full, bury your compost in the other. Covering the compost with soil helps with the decomposition process, soaks up moisture and
stops your compost from smelling bad. Stir
up your compost pot every other week. If
the soil is rich, dark-coloured and moist and
has no visible fungus in it, it is ready for use.
Scoop up the soil you need without taking
the pieces of compost that have not broken
down fully yet.
Have you any gardening tips to share with us at
Green Living?
By Wong Ee Lynn
wongeelynn@yahoo.com/ gl.mnselangor@yahoo.
com
Khor Hui Min
Gardening is very calming and therapeutic. It is good for people and
the Planet to convert unused land
into farms and gardens that can
feed humans, animals and insects.
Plants also provide shade and oxygen, and are beautiful to look at.
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Herping Trip to Bukit Larut by MNS Herp Group
O
n the 26-27th September 2015, the Herp
Group brought 16 enthusiastic MNS members
to the top of Bukit Larut for a spot of herping at
night. Bukit Larut, formerly known as Maxwell
Hill is a relatively untouched hill station approximately 10km from Taiping. At 1250 m above sea
level, it is the wettest place in Malaysia, receiving
more than 4,000 mm of rain yearly. This makes
Bukit Larut the perfect habitat of many amphibians
and a few montane specialists.
The participants were greeted with a warm
welcome and good food at The Nest, a bungalow
about 300 m hike up from Speedy’s. Shortly after a
pleasant lunch, the participants went for a walk towards the Telekom tower, led by the Nature Guides
coordinator Ms Pasupathy. After that, Steven Wong
gave a free format talk on reptiles and amphibians
using Vincent Teo’s framed pictures which are now
on display at The Nest.
Dinner was served at about 7pm as the sky
darkened and the orchestra of the night began.
After a short break and preparations, the night walk
commenced. Throughout the trip, the participants
saw 8 species of frogs, 3 species of snakes and 5
species of lizards.
Vermiculate Bush Frog (Philautus vermiculatus)
Steven
Wong
Steven
Wong
Chan-ard’s Montain Reed
Snake (Macrocalamus
chanardi)
Long Legged Horned Frog
(Xenophrys longipes)
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Juvenile Siamese Pit Viper
(Trimeresurus fucatus)
Steven
Wong
Steven Wong
Article & photos by Steven Wong
GREEN LIVING ADVOCACY
LETTER TO THE EDITOR:
SHARK FISHING NEITHER
ACCIDENTAL NOR
NEGLIGIBLE
It is with incredulity that Malaysians responded to the
Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry Minister Dato’
Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek’s statements that there
was no necessity for a ban on shark finning in Malaysia as it is not a domestic industry, and that sharks
were not caught on purpose (Oct 6).
This flies in the face of statistics supplied by
wildlife conservation organization, TRAFFIC, which
reports that Malaysia has the eight highest rate of
shark catch in the world, with 231,212 tons caught
from 2002 until 2011. For an ‘industry that doesn’t
exist’, this number is alarmingly high.
For an ‘industry that doesn’t exist’ in Malaysia, finding sharks and shark fins being sold openly
also seems to be a worryingly common sight. In fact,
a feature story in The Star in Oct 2014 even tries to
pass off the sale of a juvenile shark as ‘ecotourism’.
To conclude that there is no need for a ban
on shark finning because ‘sharks are not caught on
purpose’ shows a grave lack of awareness on the
Minister’s part on environmental issues in Malaysia.
Once this excuse is made on behalf of poachers and
fishermen, there will be no shortage of individuals
catching endangered species for profit and consumption and claiming that sharks, turtles and other
protected species were accidental by-catch.
There is also no logic to the argument that
there should not be a ban or restriction on a destructive activity simply because it was unintentional.
Whether the sharks were caught by fishermen on
purpose does not detract from the fact that shark
populations in Malaysia are under threat.
A 2014 study published in conservation
journal eLife reports that 25% of all shark species are
under threat of extinction. Blacktip reef sharks and
spot-tail sharks, found in Malaysia and frequently
sold and consumed, are listed as near-threatened on
the IUCN Red List.
Despite being portrayed in popular culture as
merciless killers, sharks actually have a vital role to
play in the marine ecosystem as top predators at the
pinnacle of the marine food pyramid. As sharks usually hunt old, weak or sick prey, they help to keep the
prey population healthy and strong, enabling these
more naturally fit animals to reproduce and pass on
their genes. Sharks also trim down many populations
of marine animals to the right size, and therefore
mitigate the harm these species cause to the marine
ecosystem through overpopulation. Sharks regulate
the behaviour of prey species, and prevent them from
over-grazing vital habitats. The effects of removing
sharks from ocean ecosystems, although complex
and rather unpredictable, are very likely to be ecologically and economically damaging.
Sharks are an incredibly fragile 'keystone
species', partly due to the fact that sharks are slowgrowing animals that mature late, live long, and
have a low reproduction rate. The depletion of shark
populations may cause the entire marine food web to
collapse, resulting in the loss of commercially important fish and shellfish species as well.
It is clear to anyone from the high rates of
shark fishing in Malaysia that sharks are a targeted
and not accidental catch, and that there is a market
in Malaysia for shark meat and shark fins. A ban on
shark fishing would therefore go a long way towards
protecting shark populations. From a human health
point of view, heavy metals and other environmen-
tal toxins accumulate in plant and animal tissues
through the well-documented process of bioaccumulation. Sharks are prone to bioaccumulation through
diet, as they incorporate metals very efficiently and
eliminate them slowly. Eating shark meat exposes
the consumer to these potentially dangerous toxins,
in particular, high levels of the methyl mercury. While
a certain amount of mercury in the environment is
natural, growing worldwide pollution of our oceans is
increasing the risk of high mercury levels in the fish
we eat, particularly fish at the top of the food chain
like sharks. Consuming sharks will
increase the level of mercury one ingests, which will
in turn increase one's risk of neurological disorders,
coronary heart disease and other serious health issues.
It is critical that there is legislation to monitor
fishing vessels and their fishing methods to prevent
overfishing, and to ban shark fishing and enforce
penalties for the capture of and trade in sharks. Apart
from targeted fishing, sharks are also threatened by
pollution and habitat destruction. As such, marine
protected areas must be established to protect marine ecosystems and habitats to mitigate the effects
of pollution and habitat loss to shark populations.
As a concerned citizen, I hope that our ministers will demonstrate clear thinking and good judgement in addressing environmental and other issues,
and work together with credible advocacy groups,
including conservation organisations, to obtain verifiable data and information that will assist them in
making the best decisions for the country.
WONG EE LYNN
COORDINATOR,
GREEN LIVING SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP,
MALAYSIAN NATURE SOCIETY, SELANGOR
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Calendar of Activities
NOVEMBER 2015
Wildlife and Nature Photography Talk
Date: 11 November 2015 (Wednesday)
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: MNS HQ Auditorium
Ms. Gaynor Robson, FNPS EFIAP SSVAPS is a visiting
nature photographer from Australia, a member of Victorian
Society of Photography and Past President of Camberwell
Camera Club. She will be sharing with us on how to compose
and the finer post processing editing of wildlife images. With
her vast experience in photography, she also sits as a judge
in photography contests in Australia. For enquiries, please
contact Alex Foong (012-2893133).
Sekinchan Paddy Fields: A Halfday Photography Outing
Date: 22 November 2015 (Sunday)
Meeting Time: 7.30am
Meeting place: Tg. Karang
Khor Hui Min
This will be a half day event. Those interested, please register
with mnsphotogroup@gmail.com before 15 Nov 2015 with
the following details :
Email Ref: SEKINCHAN 2015
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Registered participants will be advised of the meeting point.
Limited places only.
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Long birding trip to Kinabalu National
Park (KNP), Sabah
Date: 5-9 December 2015 (Sat-Wed)
Sekinchan is the rice bowl of Selangor. We are making a
photography trip to the paddy fields and the villages in its surrounding area. Interesting photography subjects include the
many water canals and fruit crop plantations. If we are lucky,
we will be able to photograph the farmers tending to the rice
field.
Your Name I/C or Passport No.
Membership Number Expiry Date
Contact No. Next-Of-Kin (NOK)
NOK Tel No.
DECEMBER 2015
The MNS Selangor Branch Bird Group is organising a 5 days
and 4 nights (5D4N) birding trip to the KNP in Sabah from
the 5th to 9th December 2015
KNP at 1500 metres above sea level, offers a cool
climate which makes it ideal for bird watching without hassle from the hot sun. More than half of Borneo’s flora and
fauna can be found in KNP. It was designated as a UNESCO
World Heritage Site in 2000, an ASEAN Heritage Site and an
Important Bird Area in Malaysia (IBA Code: MY21).
KNP and nearby areas have recorded over 300 species of birds which is about 50% of all bird species found in
Borneo. Listed are the 24 Bornean Endemic species found in
KNP: Red-breasted Hill Partridge, Crimson-headed Partridge,
Bornean Frogmouth, Bornean Swiflet, Whitehead’s Trogon,
Golden-naped Barbet, Whitehead’s Broadbill, Bornean Leafbird, Bornean Whistler, Bornean Treepie, Pale-faced Bulbul,
Bornean Stubtail, Friendly Bush Warbler, Mountain Wrenbabbler, Chestnut-crested Yuhina, Bald-headed Laughingthrush, Chestnut-hooded Laughing-thrush, Mountain Blackeye, Fruithunter, Bornean Whistling Thrush, Everett’sThrush,
Eyebrowed Jungle Flycatcher, Bornean Flowerpecker &
Whitehead’s Spiderhunter.
This trip is open to MNS members only.
The cost of this trip is
1. RM 680.00 per pax (Dormitory-10pax/room, Single Tube
Beds)
2. RM 900.00 per pax (Family Room-2pax/room, 2 Queen
Beds)
3. RM 980.00 per pax (Double Room-1pax/room, 1 Queen
Bed)
4. RM 840.00 per pax (Japanese Room-2pax/room, 2
Queen Beds)
Cost covers the expenses for basic breakfast, accommodation at Kinabalu Mountain Lodge, Van transport, Park
entrance fees, welcome lunch and Insurance for the trip.
Not included are the Air-fares, all other meals, Camera fees
and Beverages.
There are a total of 27 places available on a “firstcome-first-serve” basis. Please contact Mr.Low Kok Hen
012-3807775, email:statepets@yahoo.com for more details.
Regular Trees and Shrubs and their
Stranger Names
Date: 19 December 2015 (Saturday)
Meeting time: 9.30am
Starting point: Back exit of the 4-Season House
(Rumah 4 Iklim)
You’ve probably seen them when you walked in logged-over
forests, but not know of their names. Their names sounded
peculiar, it’s almost hard to believe they can be known that
way. Want to know them? Come and join the Flora Group
in their walkabout at the Taman Botani Negara Shah Alam
(TBNSA) to learn 9 of them.
Be at the starting point at least 15 minutes before the
walk so that we can start on time. Wear long sleeves and trousers. A cap may be good too. Put on insect repellent. Bring
along sufficient drinking water.
TBNSA (formerly Taman Pertanian Malaysia or
Taman Pertanian Bukit Cahaya Seri Alam) opens daily (except Mondays) at 8.30am. To get there, visit their webpage
www.tbnsa.gov.my. Parking fee is RM3 per vehicle. Entrance fee is RM3 (adult) RM1 (seniors/child). Upon entering, take the complimentary bus ride to the 4-Season House.
The starting point is a short walk from the bus stand you will
alight.
Enquire more and register by 12 December 2015 by
notifying Mr. Kevin Choong at kevinchoongck@gmail.com.
Green Living & Kedai Jalanan
Joint Project: Collecting Preloved Items for a Good Cause
Date: 20 December 2015 (Sunday)
Time: 2.00-6.00pm
Location: Jalan Panggung street corner, Kuala
Lumpur (in front of Malaya-Hainan Cafe)
Green Living would like you to spring-clean your homes for
a good cause, and this is how you do it! We need you to root
out, clean up and deliver to us the following items:
1. Wearable and reusable clothes, separated into men’s,
women’s and children’s.
2. Usable bags, including non-woven shopping bags, travel
bags, handbags, purses, wallets and backpacks.
3. Towels, blankets, mats and sarongs.
4. Shoes, sandals and footwear.
5. Hotel and sample-sized toileteries (no half-used tubes
and bottles, please).
6. Reusable food and water containers, camping plates and
camping/travel cookware.
We will be doing a joint project with Kedai Jalanan,
a social initiative started by the Gender Studies Unit of Universiti Malaya, to offer these usable items to the homeless and
urban poor in Kuala Lumpur at their monthly pop-up street
store. At Kedai Jalanan, each street client gets to pick up to
5 items FOC. Items are arranged neatly in baskets and on
clothes racks, and street clients are treated with dignity and
respect.
Clothing and items that are in bad condition should
be thrown out or put into community recycling bins where
stained and torn clothing will be sold as scrap fabric for
industrial use.
To donate your items:
1. Select, clean and sort your donations as per our guidelines, and then bring them over on 20th December to
Jalan Panggung, where Green Living and Kedai Jalanan
volunteers will take them from you.
2. Alternatively, if you are unable to deliver the items
yourself, please contact Ee Lynn atwongeelynn@yahoo.
com to arrange for collection / delivery. Please note that
it would be impractical for volunteers to drive all across
town to pick up contributions from every donor, so
please make an effort to meet us halfway.
To volunteer:
1. Please email Ee Lynn at wongeelynn@yahoo.com to let us
know your identities and the number of volunteers.
2. Volunteers should be at the meeting point at 2.00 p.m. to
begin sorting and displaying items. The shop opens for business at 3.00 p.m. and closes for the day at5.30 - 6 p.m. after
which volunteers should help to tidy up and transport unsuit-
able items to the nearest recycling bins.
The objective of this project is to help redirect usable resources to local beneficiaries. Most of the clothes dropped off
in recycling bins end up being sold in ‘bundle stores’ in developing countries (http://www.thestar.com.my/Lifestyle/Features/2015/02/16/Where-do-old-clothes-go/) instead of being
used to directly benefit the underprivileged in our own city.
Many of our clients have also requested clothes suitable for
work (e.g. blouses, work shirts, trousers, shoes, baju kurung)
as they wish to attend job interviews to seek better employment opportunities, so let us help them in order that they may
better help themselves. Reusing and sharing our resources is
good for the environment and community, and volunteering
makes better persons of us all.
Birding in Madagascar
Date: 22 December 2015 (Tuesday)
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: MNS HQ Auditorium
Madagascar is the world’s fourth largest island. At 600,000
km², it is almost twice the size of Malaysia and 800 times as
big as Singapore. Despite its size, it has only about 265 bird
species. Its 3 main climatic zones, namely, the eastern rainforest, the southern spiny bush and the western deciduous forest,
however, holds 120 endemic species and 5 endemic families.
It is truly a bird-watcher’s paradise. Much sought-after birds
include the Appert’s Greenbul, Long-tailed Ground-roller,
and White-breasted Mesite.
Gerard Francis, an avid birder from Singapore, was
there in November this year. He will share with us the birds
he encountered, and also the wide array of mammals, reptiles,
frogs, invertebrates and flora he may have seen while birding.
Time: 8pm at the MNS HQ auditorium in KL. All are welcome (including non-members) and admission is free (no
prior registration required). For queries, contact Lim Wai
Kong (012-3935189, drwklim@yahoo.com).
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Do you know that all our Assets including banks' accounts will be frozen
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If you pass on without having a VALID WILL this is what happens:
1. Your Family
• Your spouse and children will face cash flow problem because all your
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• Your children’s welfare may not be taken care of by the people of your
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2. The Legal Process
• Delay in distribution due to the legal administrative process (2–6 years)
• 2 guarantors / sureties required (amount equal or more than deceased's
estate)
• Much more costly resulting in financial burdens to your family
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(Servicing area: Klang Valley only)
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24 Hour Wildlife Crime Hotline
019-356 4194
This hotline is a channel to report offences involving all
endangered wildlife Malaysia, for example:
• the discovery of snares, traps and cages set in the forest to catch
wildlife,
• a captured tiger in the forest,
• a bear caged in a village,
• an endangered species of bird or reptile being sold illegally in a pet
shop,
• the sale of illegal products such as tiger parts sold in “traditional”
medicine,
• wildlife parts - skins, claws, and elephant tusks sold as collectables
• pets or wildlife advertised or served in a restaurant, or sold for the
cooking pot
The Wildlife Crime Hotline is managed by MYCAT, which stands for Malaysian
Conservation Alliance for Tigers. MYCAT comprises the Malaysian Nature
Society (MNS), TRAFFIC Southeast Asia, Wildlife Conservation Society-Malaysia
Programme and WWF-Malaysia.
MNS HQ
JKR 641, Jalan Kelantan,
Bukit Persekutuan, 50480 Kuala Lumpur
(just before the Seri Perdana turn off to
Jalan Mahameru)
Open: Monday –Friday ; 9:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
T: 03-22879422 F: 03-22878773
mns@mns.org.my www.mns.my
Membership: Leong Wee Chin
BRANCH EXCO MEMBERS 2015-2016
Johor Branch c/o Vincent Chow
32, Jln Molek 3/11, Tmn Molek, 81100 JB, Johor
www.mnsj.org.my
Blog: www.mnsj.org.my
Chairman: Vincent Chow, vkkchow@yahoo.com
Vice-Chair: Wee Soon Chit, soonchit@hotmail.com
Secretary: Belinda Wong Mei Lang, belinda@
bellogistics.com
Kuching Branch (Sarawak)
Email: mnskuching@gmail.com
Chairman: Vincent Wong, vyywong@gmail.com
Vice-Chair: Rose Au Nyat Jun, njau44@yahoo.com
Secretary: Mairead Boland, maireadgboland@gmail.com
Miri Branch (Sarawak)
Email: mnsmiri@yahoo.com; Blog:mnsmiri.blogspot.com
Chairman: Musa Musbah, sammua@yahoo.com
Vice-Chair: Mohamd Jefri Mudin, jefrimiri@gmail.com
Secretary: Mairead Boland, maireadgboland@gmail.com
Selangor Branch
c/o MNS HQ address
www.mns.my/selangor
Email: mns.selangor@gmail.com
E-group: malaysiannaturesociety@yahoogroups.com
Chairman: Henry Goh, henrygks10@gmail.com
Vice-Chair: Pasupathy Jayaraj, pasupathy_jayaraj@yahoo.com
Secretary: Wong Pui May, wongpuimay@hotmail.com
Kedah Branch
Penang Branch
Nature Information Centre (NIC),
673-B Jln Kebun Bunga,10350 Penang. Tel: 04-2273673
Open Mon-Sat, 7.30am – 11.30am
(Please phone before visiting)
www.geocities.com/mnspenang/
Blog: mnspenang@yahoogroups.com; email: mnspenang@
yahoo.com
Chairman: Tan Choo Eng, chooengtan@yahoo.com
Vice-Chair: James Ooi Teik Kok,
jamesooiteikkok@yahoo.com
Secretary: Tan Pek Tao, Peggy, tpeggypeach@yahoo.com
Address: 3 Jalan Timur 1, Kawasan Perusahaan Mergong
Barrage, 05150 Alor Setar, Kedah
Chairman: Left Kol Husamuddin bin Yaacob, husaya@gmail.
comVice-Chair: Wan Muhaimin B Wan Jamil, wanatc@
Perak Branch
yahoo.com
Email: mnsperak@gmail.com
Secretary: Phang Fatt Khow, fkphang05@yahoo.com
70 Jln Chan Chee Keong, Ipoh Garden South,31400 Ipoh
Blog: mnsperak@yahoogroups.com
Kelantan Branch
Chairman: Ooi Beng Yean, bengyean@gmail.com
204, Jln Sultan Yahya Petra, 15150 Kota Bharu, Kelantan.
Vice-Chair: Leow Kon Fah, leow_kingfisher@yahoo.com
Email: meklawa@gmail.com
Secretary: Georgia Tham Yim Fong, georgi8tham@yahoo.
Chairman: Saiful Marsidi B Sidek, saiful.sidek@moe.gov.my
com
Vice-Chair: Amir Hamzah bin Abdul Shukor, amrieta@
yahoo.com
Sabah Branch
Secretary: Nazahatul Anis Amaludin,
No. 5, Taman Bukit Saujana, Lorong Saujana 2, Jalan Fung
anisamaludin@gmail.com
Yie Teng, 88460 Kolombong, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
Chairman: Anna Wong, annawg888@gmail.com
Langkawi Branch
Vice-Chair: Jimmy Omar, jemyomar@gmail.com
mnslangkawi@yahoogroups.com
Secretary: Nur Syamimi Makbul, mimimakbul@yahoo.com
Chairman: Eric R. Sinnaya, morahols@gmail.com
Vice-Chair: Kamal Ibrahim, ezkamal@gmail.com
Sabah (Sandakan) Branch
Secretary: Daisy Jeyarani Samuel,
Lot 322, Lorong Pertama 17, Taman Pertama, 90000
Daisy_Samuel_2004@yahoo.com
Sandakan, Sabah
Negeri Sembilan/Melaka Branch
Chairman: Chong Ket Vui Dusun, dusun_chong@yahoo.com
Chairman: Dr Zorina Khalid, drzorina@moh.gov.my
Vice-Chair: Gengadharan G Pillai, genga_pillai@yahoo.com
Vice-Chair: Peter Loke, peterpkloke@yahoo.com
Secretary: Quah Joo Lee, jocquah104@gmail.com
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Vice-Chair: Nurul Azne Ibrahim
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yahoo.com
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Chairman: Wong Chee Ho, cheeho@umt.edu.my
Vice-Chair: Lim Yee Ming, limyeeming16@gmail.com
Secretary: Dr Chong Ju Lian, julianchong78@gmail.com
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