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Forest Fires<br />
• Forest fires and haze now<br />
have a common recurrent<br />
of 3-4 years in Malaysia<br />
and Indonesia<br />
• Major threats causing the<br />
loss of peat swamp forests<br />
• Cause: Improper peat land<br />
management<br />
Firemen battle peat fires<br />
The New Straits Times 16 Feb 2002<br />
200 firemen are battling the biggest forest and peat fires<br />
Fires to be put out within two weeks<br />
triggered by the current dry spell at the Bukit Tarik<br />
forest reserve in Lembah Beringin, Kuala Kubu Baru. As<br />
of press time the firemen had succeeded in putting out<br />
fires covering over 5,000ha of the forest.<br />
National Hydraulic Research Institute of Malaysia, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE)
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