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Tan Wei Jack and his mentor Wan Faridah Akmal Jusoh made huge waves in the insect community when they rediscovered a ...
A firefly species not seen for over a century has been rediscovered in Taman Persekutuan Bukit Kiara by a 24-year-old ...
Discovering something rare is exciting but it becomes truly memorable when it happens unexpectedly. That was exactly the case ...
A former research assistant to a politician, Muhammed Yusoff Rawther, was today acquitted and discharged by the High Court ...
Rediscovering a species that hasn’t been seen in centuries is an honour not everybody can have. During a trip to Malaysia’s ...
A FIREFLY species has been rediscovered in Bukit Kiara, Kuala Lumpur, more than 100 years after it was last seen. The species, identified as Pteroptyx gombakia, was spotted during an experiential ...
“That was the moment I knew something was different,” added Tan. The specimen had been collected from Bukit Kiara in Kuala Lumpur – and the location left Tan puzzled. “Based on the ...
Into this equation came the government’s compulsory acquisition of the 1,500 acre Bukit Kiara Estate from Ng Chin Siu & Sons Rubber Estates Ltd. It had been acquired ostensibly “for public ...
Nine years after promises were made to turn one of Kuala Lumpur’s most popular walking and biking spots, Bukit Kiara, into a public “federal” park, nothing has moved. Instead, the land has been ...
The Bukit Kiara trails was mainly a rubber plantation many decades ago. Now that it is no longer in operation, it has been the primary green lung area near the heart of KL city. There used to be ...
My weekends are always a joy when I meet up with my friends to use the trails at Bukit Kiara, whether it is riding on my mountain bike or doing trail work to build and maintain the trails.