A hundred trees must be planted for every one cut in Kuala Lumpur, says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday (May 15), he said this order was given to the Kuala Lumpur Mayor.
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In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday (May 15), he said this order was given to the Kuala Lumpur Mayor.
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00:00 Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said that a hundred trees must be planted for every
00:06 one cut in Kuala Lumpur.
00:08 In a post on X on Wednesday, Anwar said this order was given to the Kuala Lumpur mayor.
00:14 Kuala Lumpur City Hall or DBKL said certified arborists had identified 28 trees in the city
00:20 as high-risk which would be felled soon.
00:22 A total of 175 trees have been identified as high-risk, where most of the trees exceed
00:28 50 years old.
00:30 Out of this number, 147 trees have been felled.
00:35 This comes after storms uprooted several trees in the city, the latest of which happened
00:39 in Jalan Pinang on Monday.
00:41 No one was hurt in this incident.
00:43 Earlier on May 7, another huge tree toppled on Jalan Sultan Ismail during a storm, killing
00:49 one person and injuring two others.
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