Environmental group Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) has reiterated its call for authorities to put a stop to a planned timber plantation project at the Kledang Saiong Forest Reserve in Perak.

In a statement, SAM field officer Meor Razak Meor Abdul Rahman said the monoculture project will involve an area of 4,280 hectares, which they fear would cause the destruction of the original forest cover...