Yeah‼️ SiennyLovesDrawing 👩🏻 would like to share 👩🏻💻📝 about her awesome visit to Kuala Selangor with her members 👫👭👬 of Malaysian Nature Society (MNS) to explore its ecotourism & nature conservation recently 💚👍🏻
Hmm…Can’t really recalled 💭 when the last time 🗓 she was here…
So, what & where she has visited❓⁉️
Festival of Wings 2018 aka Pesta Sayap 2018 🎉🎊
This is an annual public event since 2004 by MNS in the middle of the bird 🦅🐦 migratory season to celebrating the millions of birds 🦅🐦 that use the East Asian-Australasian Flyway to get the best 👍🏻 of the seasons 😀
It’s themed ~ “Welcoming the birds 🦅🐦 ” – Unifying our voices for bird 🦅 🐦 conservation 💚” ~ & with aims,
- To raising ⬆️ awareness on migratory birds 🦅🐦 & their wetlands habitats 🌳🌱🏞
- To collecting data for both resident & migratory birds 🦅 🐦 in the forest 🌳 & wetlands habitat 🌳🌱🏞
- To outreaching the community & the public 👭👫👬 to be actively involved for nature 💚 conservation campaigns
- To promoting KSNP & its surroundings as a potential Ramsar 💚 site📍, a Flyway Network Site important for local community 👭👬👫 & an ecotourism 💚 destination with the variety of resident birds 🦅🐦 that living on the wetlands 🌳🌱🏞
This festival 🎊🎉 is important to communicating to public 👭👬👫 the importance of protecting our wetlands 🌳🌱🏞 in Malaysia 🇲🇾 Wetlands 🌳🌱🏞 provide a sustainable livelihood not just for birds🦅🐦, also for the productive fishery 🐟🐠 areas, the cockle 🐚 beds, the firefly 🦗 habitats, the paddy 🌾 fields etc. It also create awareness to public 👭👫👬 on the various nature 💚 & animal conservation efforts in Malaysia 🇲🇾 e.g. Hornbill, Sunbear 🐻, PAKAS etc.
There were many exhibition booths being set up with exciting activities 😃😁
Personally, she 👩🏻 has enjoyed the booth with nature ☘️🌿🍀 🌱 craft pressed card ✂️📌🔖 the most 😍🤩 She 👩🏻 learnt so much from the MNS member cum volunteer named Ms Joyce 👩🏻🏫 about leaves 🌿☘️🍀🌱collecting from the forest 🌳🌳, then making a bookmark 🔖 or greeting card with it. Special thanks 🙏🏻 to Ms Joyce 👩🏻🏫 for sharing this nice nature 💚 craft idea 💡 , bravo‼️👍🏻🙌🏻👏🏻
A success annual festival 🎉🎊 , will attend again for sure✌🏻😉
More details via 🌐 https://www.mns.my/2018/10/03/pesta-sayap-2018/
If you enjoy birds 🦅🐦 watching, do join the annual Raptor Watch, do check out via 🌐https://www.mns.my/raptor-watch/ & 🌐 https://mnsraptorwatch.wordpress.com/about-rw/
Kuala Selangor Nature Park (KNSP) aka Taman Alam 💚🌳🌳💚
SiennyLovesDrawing 👩🏻 has signed up ✅ with her friends 👫👭👬 at the Nature Guide booth during her visit at the Festivals of Wings 🎉🎊 for a guided mangrove walk 🚶🏻♀️🚶🏻♂️🌳🌱🏞 in KSNP 💚🌳🌳💚
Special thanks 🙏🏻 to Mr. John 🙋🏻♂️ , the experienced volunteering nature guide who have shared 🗣👥👤👥 an informative guided nature walk into the trails at this park 💚🌳🌳💚 for approximately 1.5 hours 👍🏻✌🏻
KSNP was open 🆗 to public 👭👬👫 since 1987 with 3️⃣ aims,
- Education ~ To educating the public 👭👫👬 on the importance of environmental protection 💚🌳🌱🏞💚
- Conservation 💚 ~ To instilling awareness of the public over nature environmental issues
- Research ~ To improving ⬆️ the protection & conservation 💚 of wetlands 🌱🌳🏞 in the area
This nature park 💚🌳🌳💚 with 3️⃣ different habitats which play an important role to the whole nature ecosystem 💚
- Secondary forest 🌳🌳
- Blackish lake 💦💧 (Man made with both salt water 💦💧 & fresh water 💦💧 supplies)
- Mangroves 🌱🌳🏞
Met 1️⃣ of the MNS volunteer birder, Mr Low 👨🏻 at the viewing tower 🗼 & he 👨🏻 has kindly offered 👍🏻 to view 👀 through his digital scope 🔭 for a resting white collared king fisher 🐦 at the tree 🌳 Wow‼️😍🤩
Special thank you 🙏🏻 to Mr Low 👨🏻 & Mr Wan, reporter from Malay Mail publication 🗞📰 who sharing his photo 📸 captured from the digital scope 🔭
There are plenty of resident & migratory birds 🦅🐦 , silvered leaf monkeys 🐒🐵 to be observed in this park 🌳🌱🏞
Also learn much more about the plants 🌱🌿, mangroves 🌳🌱🏞 & animals 🦅🐦🐵🐒
Ohh wow😲‼️ The colourful tiny crabsss 🦀🦀 , so so cute 😍🤩
She 👩🏻 has captured a short clip 📹🎥 from her nature guided walk🚶🏻♀️in KSNP💚🌳🌳💚, do enjoy it ya 🤗
So, do plan a weekend outing 🚗🚌 to this nature park 💚🌳🌳💚 with family members or friends 👫👭👬 & you may opt for an overnight stay too 🏡🏘🏡🛌🚪🚿🚽
Address📍: Taman Alam Kuala Selangor, Jalan Klinik, 45000 Kuala Selangor, Selangor Darul Ehsan, West Malaysia
Operating hours🕘: 9️⃣am to 6️⃣pm
Website🌐: https://www.mns.my/kuala-selangor-nature-park-ksnp/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/Kuala-Selangor-Nature-Park-106115922754691/
Birdwatching Cruising 🦅🐦🚤 @ Sungai Burung
An enjoyable yet under the superb hot sunny 🔆🔆 day to cruising 🚤 along Sungai Burung & to enjoy viewing the resident & migratory birds 🦅🐦
Our boatman, Pakcik Sahar 👨🏽 also shared cockle 🐚 harvesting during the cruising 🚤 with us. The cockles 🐚🐚 are all big & fresh 😆😄
Guess what❓⁉️
We got some horseshoe crabs too, but then releasing them back to the river 💦💧 as they are just baby crabs ~ tiny in size 😁
She 👩🏻 has captured a short clip 📹🎥 from her birdwatching 🦅🐦 cruise 🚤 with Pakcik Sahar 👨🏽, do enjoy it ya 🤗
Address📍: Jetty ⚓️ to Sungai Burung, Jalan Parit 4, Pantai Sungai Burung, Kampung Parit Empat, 45400 Tanjong Karang, Selangor, West Malaysia
Contact no. 📞☎️📱: Pakcik Sahar 👨🏽 +6013-318 5593
Fee🎟: Subject to distance & length of time
Ohh ya…You may check out MNS’s annual event named Raptor Watch to sign up via 🌐https://mnsraptorwatch.wordpress.com/about-rw/, then to participate & enjoy the bird watching 🦅🐦 at Port Dickson beach, Negeri Sembilan
Fireflies Cruising 🛶 @ Kampung Kuantan
Before the boat cruising, SiennyLovesDrawing 👩🏻 has visited the tree 🌳🌳 planting centre as habitat conservation efforts for the fireflies 👍🏻
Not to be missed the beautiful sunset moment at jetty before the fireflies cruising 🛶
She 👩🏻 has recalled that she 👩🏻 was amazed 🤩😍 with the Chrismas trees 🎄💫 alike surrounding when her parents 👴🏻👵🏻 brought her 👩🏻 when she was a kid 👧🏻 for fireflies cruising 🛶
Hmm….Quite sad 😔😢 to share that the Christmas trees 🎄💫 effects no longer as great 👍🏻 as before. The fireflies numbers are declining ⬇️ mainly due to the pollution, degradation of the water 💦💧quality, clearing of river 💦💧 reserves & mangroves 💚🌳🌱🏞 closer to the fireflies viewing 👀 sites etc. She 👩🏻 is proud & happy 😃 that various of conservation 💚 efforts has been made to conserve and rehabilitate their habitat e.g. trees 🌳🌳 planting project with Berembang trees & Nipah trees
She 👩🏻 highly recommends👆🏻to enjoy the boat 🛶 cruising from Kampung Kuantan because the local community 👫👭👬 here still using the small wooden boats 🛶 aka sampan in Malaysia 🇲🇾’s national language. The boats 🛶🛶 are steered manually by a boatman 👨🏽👨🏽 during the cruising 🛶 There is another venue for fireflies cruising 🛶 named Bukit Belimbing where electronic boats 🚤 are being used
She 👩🏻 was told the fireflies are more impressive 🤩🤩 if it hasn’t rained 🌧☔️ shortly before & if it is not a full moon 🌕 night 🌃
Basic firefly-watching 👀 etiquette includes,
- Do not use your torch 🔦 / use flash 📸 to capture photos/ videos 📹🎥 during the fireflies cruising 🛶 as this will disturb & disrupt the fireflies’ mating
- Not to talk loudly 🗣 & making unnecessary noise during the cruising 🛶
- No smoking 🚭 & littering ❌ is allowed during the cruising 🛶
- Quietly enjoy the nature light 💫💫 show by the fireflies. If you catch the fireflies & brought home 🏡, a fine of RM1️⃣k will be imposed
She 👩🏻 has captured a short clip 📹🎥 from her fireflies cruising🛶, low lighting & only mild nature light 💫💫 show by the fireflies being captured ya 😃😁
Address📍: Jalan Club, Kampung Kuantan, 45000 Kuala Selangor, Selangor, West Malaysia
Operating Hours🕢: 7.30pm – 11.30pm
Fee🎟: RM50 per boat 🛶 for 4️⃣ pax only
Website 🌐: http://www.mdks.gov.my/en/visitors/places-interest/kg-kuantan-fireflies
You may read 📖 more about fireflies conservation 💚 news 🗞📰 via reference links below,
- 🌐 http://www.thesundaily.my/news/954743
- 🌐 https://www.rage.com.my/protecting-natures-glow/
- 🌐 https://www.rage.com.my/park-life/
~ Save Sungai Selangor campaign ~
http://archive.ramsar.org/pdf/lib/hbk4-07cs11.pdf
Bioblitz Seminar 2018
This is the KSNP for Ramsar Seminar being organised by MNS with aims to present the latest data 📑📊📈 on the results of scientists 👨🏻🔬👩🏻🔬 & volunteers research about the biodiversity in KSNP 💚🌳🌳💚
All the presentations of findings 📊📈 from it will then be used as the supporting documents 📑 for the preparation & submission of KNSP 💚🌳🌳💚 as a new 🆕 Ramsar Site in Malaysia 🇲🇾
It was a crowded seminar & she 👩🏻 was impressed 🤩 with all the researches & actions done by the MNS & other nature conservation NGOs’ volunteers 👫👭👬
Also she 👩🏻 has met the founders (a couple) 👫 of KNSP 💚🌳🌳💚 from this seminar
Guess what❓⁉️
An engineer named Mr Muhammad Akhir 👨🏻🏭 was being asked ❓⁉️to build a golf ⛳️🏌️♀️🏌️♂️ course from this park 💚🌳🌳💚 area, he has then managed to replace the plan by swapping it into a nature park i.e. KNSP today 💚🌳🌳💚
His wife, Ms Alice 👩🏼💼 from UK 🇬🇧 also played an important role towards realised this golf course ⛳️🏌️♀️🏌️♂️ vs nature park 💚🌳🌳💚 mission back then. It was since 1987, such a long long time for this couple 👫
A privilege to have a short interview 📹🎥 with of of them 👫 & observed their truly inspiring passionate for nature conservation 💚💚 Bravo ‼️👍🏻💪🏻👏🏻🙌🏻
It’s a meaningful 2️⃣D1️⃣N trip to appreciate the on going ecotourism & nature conservation 💚 efforts towards in Kuala Selangor
“If ecotourism can be allowed to succeed, conservation will follow” ~ Andrew Sebastian
In the 1940s, MNS was established with aims to promote the study 📖📑📊📈, appreciation👍🏻, conservation & protection 💚 of Malaysia 🇲🇾’s natural heritage 😃
So, let’s sign up ✅ to become MNS member or volunteer 👫💚 via 🌐 https://www.mns.my/join-us/ & 🌐 https://www.mns.my/volunteer/ to get involve & learn more about the nature & animals conservation activities 💚💚
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