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Activities Report 1999 July Newsletter

Enforcing Sensitive Areas 
      Malaysian Nature Society (MNS) welcomes the Government's directive to local authorities (NST 24/5/99) to implement the new guidelines on hill development, which, among others, prohibit cutting of slopes of more than 35 in gradient, as all State Governments have adopted them. The guidelines are drawn up under amendments to the Town and Country Planning Act 1976, Protection of Natural Topography in the Planning and Physical Development, are to safeguard the topography of hilly terrain, highlands, rivers and beaches, amongst others. 

Kuala Lumpur, 26 May 1999


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