Alternatively, join one of the special interest groups (free as long as you are a member) and work with them on their conservation projects. Could be anything from Raptor Watch Week, to collecting Crown of Thorn Starfish on a reef, to taking kids on forest outings, planting trees, desisgning brochures, helping with the website…or all of the above.

Great way to have fun, learn about our natural world and biodiversity, explore Malaysia on the cheap, make great friends of committed people, do something worthwhile…

http://www.mns.org.my

There was a good reason for needing the road – the only road up to Camerons was narrow and winding and the area at the top (with its cool climate) is now a major vegetable growing centre, exporting to Singapore.

But when what you end up with is a dangerous environmental disaster like this new road, and you were told that it would be by people who actually understand the geology of the country, then you did something not only wrong but incredibly costly in ways that will last forever.

Perhaps they could have thought in terms of transport by cable instead. I’ve seen such things in Europe. Or using tunnels. Bridges to span valleys instead of chopping into the valley sides for miles and miles. Any damn thing would have been better than this.

For what reason was the road built?
Economic? Company profit?
Is road building in Malaysia performed by government or private contractor?