NGOs want govt to gazette Bukit Persekutuan as a heritage site

The Malaysian Nature Society (MNS) and the International Council on Monuments and Sites (Icomos) have called on the government to gazette Bukit Persekutuan as a heritage site to freeze developments within the vicinity.

The two NGOs said at a press conference today that the government should protect what is left of the urban forests in Kuala Lumpur to stop unsustainable and rampant overdevelopment...