The Shah Alam Community Forest (SACF) is an urban treasure under threat. The latest development plan from the Shah Alam City Council (MBSA) will destroy this forest plus endanger the precious wildlife here, including the Malayan Tapir. Yes, we have tapirs here! Our SACF is a rare natural recreational...
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The Shah Alam Community Forest society (SACFS) is alarmed at the destruction inside the Bukit Cherakah Forest Reserve (refer Figures 1 & 2). We refer to the statement given yesterday (24 September 2021) by Selangor executive council member, YB Hee Loy Sian. He claims that the area was de-gazetted...
In Aug - Sept 2020, MBSA carried out a public feedback exercise for their 2035 local plan draft. In this draft was a proposal to build a road across an existing forested land, also known to the local community as Shah Alam Community Forest (SACF). This natural lowland dipterocarp...
In May 1909, Bukit Cherakah Forest Reserve was constituted in the Selangor Government Gazette comprising 23,826 acres. As of 1st October 2020, following a total of 4 extensions and 21 excisions, the reserve had a net area of 6,482 acres remaining (refer to green area in attached map). It...
Our much loved Shah Alam Community Forest was highlighted by Andrew Sia in Malaysia's independant English news portal, Malaysiakini on 20th Sept 2020. Excerpt as below: COMMENT | Okay, imagine that your city has only one beautiful nature reserve, with hills and forests, where people can go hiking to...
Our Shah Alam Community Forest (SACF) Society committee members - Alicia Teoh and Teckwyn Lim represented us in an interview on Malaysia's Business Radio, BFM Radio 89.9 on Sep 14, 2020. The Shah Alam City Council recently released its latest draft local plan draft (Draf Rancangan Tempatan 2035) for...
Our Shah Alam Community Forest (SACF) was featured in Malaysia's local Mandarin daily, Sin Chew Jit Poh on 26th August 2020. The article highlighted that our SACF has been threatened by a development of a road which will cut through the forest. Once the developers start construction on the...
Our much loved Shah Alam Community Forest was featured in Malaysia's English daily, The Star's Metro section on August 24th, 2020. Group fights to keep green lung Submitting objections to Shah Alam Local Draft Plan 2035 is society's last-ditch effort NUMEROUS objections have been filed by residents against the...
Our Shah Alam Community Forest trails have be open since June 15th 2020! We urge everyone to comply with the SOP given by our government. Please know that SACF can be closed again by the authorities if they found that hikers are not obeying the SOP. So please do...