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Why Botanic Garden is not the place for a scouts’ campsite

 People's Park/PGCC, Sustainable development  17 Responses »
Mar 132012
 

A rifle club and a scouts’ campsite are incompatible with the objectives of a real botanic garden, writes environmentalist Dr Leong Yueh Kwong.

 Posted by Anil Netto at 10.32pm  Tagged with: Botanic Garden, Penang

If you love the Penang Botanic Garden …

 Development issues, People's Park/PGCC, Sustainable development  32 Responses »
Mar 102012
 

… take some time to read environmentalist Dr Leong Yueh Kwong’s thoughtful response to the draft Special Area Plan for the Garden.

 Posted by Anil Netto at 7.08pm  Tagged with: Botanic Garden, Penang, Special Area Plan

More buildings for Penang Botanic Garden!

 People's Park/PGCC, Sustainable development  33 Responses »
Jan 212012
 
More buildings for Penang Botanic Garden!

The draft Special Area Plan for the Penang Botanic Garden reveals plans for at least three more major concrete structures in the Garden.

 Posted by Anil Netto at 10.58am  Tagged with: overdevelopment, Penang Botanic Garden, Special Area Plan

Live – Penang Forum 4

 Development issues, Environment, Malaysian history, People's Park/PGCC, Sustainable development  17 Responses »
Dec 182011
 

Penang Forum 4: Development and Good Governance is being held at the Caring Society Complex in Penang today. Penang Forum 4: Development and Good Governance

 Posted by Anil Netto at 9.14am  Tagged with: NGOs, Penang Forum 4, sustainable development

Botanic Garden deteriorates again after Tengku Idaura leaves

 People's Park/PGCC  9 Responses »
Nov 032011
 

Tengku Idaura’s short stint as ‘pengarah’ of the Penang Botanic Garden was “truly outstanding in the face of little official support, no expert botanist staff, despite many requests, and often virtual daily insubordination”.

 Posted by Anil Netto at 4.06pm  Tagged with: Penang Botanic Garden, Tengku Idaura
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