PROJECT DESCRIPTION

This project aims to empower targeted Orang Asli communities in Peninsular Malaysia in natural resource conservation and sustainable livelihoods especially to address land degradation near their villages and to protect and rehabilitate forest, and rivers important for conservation and community welfare. The project will assist targeted Orang Asli communities in Gombak river basin.

Goal

• To reduce riverbank erosions and landslides, and increase the biodiversity through planting riverine trees and adopt nature-based solutions.
• To promote and encourage community and stakeholder engagement in mainstreaming biodiversity into river management