Green Our Earth Save Our Future Generations at Kinta River Walk

22 April 2022: Green Our Earth Save Our Future Generations @ Kinta River Walk

Lions Club of Perak Silver State (LCPSS) will team up once again with Ipoh City Council (MBI) to plant trees at Kinta River Walk in conjunction with World Earth Day on 22 April 2022.

This is part  of LCPSS Environment Project to help protect our planet Earth and to reduce the impact of Climate Change. It is also part of MBI's mission to reduce carbon emission and achieve a Low Carbon City status by 2030. Thanks to Mr. Ong Teng Boon, CEO of Bond Holdings and MBI for sponsoring these Tecoma trees.

The five Tecoma trees will be planted by 5 VVIPs. It carries a serial number from LCPSS 106/04/2022 to LCPSS 110/04/2022 which signifies that 110 trees have been planted by LCPSS since July 1 2020 under President Lion Clr. Dr. Richard Ng.  

World Earth Day falls on 22 April each year and celebrated by over 1 billion people around the globe. For LCPSS, this will be the 106th to 108th trees planted since July 2020. These trees are given a QR code tag so that passers by can scan and get info about the trees planted. 

The trees will be planted by five prominent people: YB Encik Mohd Akmal Bin Kamarudin, Perak State Exco in charge of environment, Ipoh City Mayor, Dato' Hj Rumaizi Bin Baharin, Lions Club Multiple District Vice Council Chairperson, Lion Dato' Yeoh Moh Chai, Kinta District Officer, Encik Meor Hezbullah Bin Meor Abd Malik and LCPSS President cum Ipoh City Councillor, Lion Dr. Richard Ng. 

After the tree planting, the LCPSS legacy board will be signed by dignitaries to mark an important milestone of LCPSS.

The public will also be invited to sign their pledge to embrace Recycling Culture. The signing board will be placed at Kinta River Walk for 1  month.

This is a very significant project by Lions Clubs and in Ipoh it is spearheaded by Lions Club of Perak Silver State in our effort to green our Earth to save our planet and our future generations. 

ABOUT THE TECOMA TREES PLANTED:

Tecoma is a genus of 14 species of shrubs or small trees in the trumpet vine family, Bignoniaceae originated from South America. It is also known as Trumpetbush and always being compared with Sakura trees in Japan. It blooms normally between February and April each year.

The tecoma trees will grow to maximum height of 25m with carbon sequestration of approximately 7,000 kg. 

Four interesting facts about 'Sakura Look-alike' Tecoma Trees that we see in Malaysia (See the following link):

https://hello.tourplus.my/festive-seasons/4-interesting-facts-about-the-sakura-look-alike-tecoma-trees-that-we-see-in-malaysia/

The five tecoma trees planted will be commemorated with QR Code and Serial Numbers from LCPSS/106/04/2022 to LCPSS/110/04/2022 as follows:

Tree Number: LCPSS/109/04/22

Name of Tree: Tecoma or Trumpetbush Trees

Date Planted: 22 April 2022

Planted by: YB Encik Mohd Akmal Bin Kamarudin, Perak State Exco in charge of Environment

Tree Number: LCPSS/110/04/22

Name of Tree: Tecoma or Trumpetbush Trees

Date Planted: 22 April 2022

Planted by: YBhg Tuan Meor Hezbullah Bin Meor Abd Malik, Kinta District Officer

Tree Number: LCPSS/106/04/22

Name of Tree: Tecoma or Trumpetbush Trees

Date Planted: 22 April 2022

Planted by: YBhg Dato' Hj. Rumaizi Bin Baharin, the Mayor of Ipoh City

Tree Number: LCPSS/107/04/22

Name of Tree: Tecoma or Trumpetbush Trees

Date Planted: 22 April 2022

Planted by: YBhg Lion Dato' Yeoh Moh Chai, Multiple District Vice Council Chairperson

Tree Number: LCPSS/108/04/22

Name of Tree: Tecoma or Trumpetbush Trees

Date Planted: 22 April 2022

Planted by: YBhg Lion Clr. Dr. Richard Ng, Ipoh City Councillor cum President of Lions Club of Perak Silver State (2021 - 2022)

Ipoh City Mayor Received Meritorious Award

 Feb 26, 2022

Dato Bandar, Dato’ Hj Rumaizi Bin Baharin was recently awarded the Meritorious Award by Lions Club of Perak State during the club’s 16^th Charter Anniversary Celebration and 17^th Installation of President, Dr. Richard Ng and his Board Members.

 

Rumaizi was awarded for his Excellent Leadership in Transforming Ipoh City into a Low Carbon Walkable City and his Initiative in introducing the MBI Caring Scheme.

 

According to Club President Dr Richard Ng, Dato’ Rumaizi was one of the four recipients chosen this year for their exemplary services to the society in line with UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. His philosophy has been to assist the people especially during covid-19 pandemic by focusing on achieving Zero Poverty and Zero Hunger. His administration has always been guided by 3Ps – People, Planet and Prosperity.

 

The other recipients of the award are Datuk Normah Hanum Binti Dato’ Ibrahim, for her excellent leadership in providing education for the needy. Activist Mdm Pathma Devi was awarded for her role in promoting awareness in Domestic Violence and Child Sexual Abuse. The fourth recipient was Dato’ Ooi Chao Shyuan was awarded for his excellent leadership in promoting Lionism and Volunteerism throughout Malaysia.

 

The awards were presented by Guest of Honour, Perak State Committee Chairman for Housing, Local Government and Tourism, Dato Nolee Ashilin Binti Dato’ Mohamad Radzi. Also present during the ceremony include 308B2 District Governor Michel Yee Yoke Cheng. During her speech, Dato’ Nolee welcome all participants from far and near despite the rise in new covid cases reported. We should start to take it as endemic and not cause anxiety to the public as this has an adverse effect on the business community, tourism industry and the people. She also welcome Lions Club to hold a Multiple Sub Convention in Ipoh planned on 22 April 2022 with an estimated number of 500 participants from all over Malaysia.

 

Lions Club of Perak Silver State under the leadership of Dr. Richard Ng has won 35 awards including Club Excellent award. He was also awarded the International President Certificate for his excellent contributions during the fiscal year 2021 – 2022.

 

During the anniversary celebration, the club receives contribution from PCCCI President, Dato’ Liew Chee Meng and Ngan Yin Food Industries Sdn. Bhd. Chairman, Dato’ Gan Tack Kong. The contributions were given to assist the club in helping the needy especially during the covid pandemic.

Visit by HE Dr. Peter Blomeyer, Ambassador of Germany to Malaysia to Ipoh City Watch

On 25 November 2021, Ipoh City Watch will welcome the Ambassador of Germany to Malaysia, HE Dr. Peter Blomeyer who is making a week long visit to Ipoh.

According to the office of the Germany Embassy, the visit to Ipoh City Watch at Kinta Heights is to hold discussion and to understand the efforts by Ipoh City Watch in cultivating recycling culture and promoting low carbon emission in Ipoh.

During his visit to Kinta Heights, we will invite HE Dr. Peter to plant a tree there to commemorate his visit. The tree selected is a bamboo tree. 

Earlier this year, 4 trees have been planted here at Kinta Heights which include 2 Brazilian Iron Trees and 2 Tecoma Trees.

The visit by HE Dr. Peter Blomeyer is to meet the President of Ipoh City Watch to discuss about environmental and low carbon emission efforts undertaken by Ipoh City Watch. During His Excellency visit to Ipoh City Watch at Kinta Heights, we will showcase some of our works done over the past 6 years.

Welcome. Selamat Datang. Willkomen HE Dr. Peter Blomeyer.

About Bamboo Tree:

Bamboos are a diverse group of evergreen perennial flowering plants in the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family. The origin of the word "bamboo" is uncertain, but it probably comes from the Dutch or Portuguese language, which originally borrowed it from Malay or Kannada.

In bamboo, as in other grasses, the internodal regions of the stem are usually hollow and the vascular bundles in the cross-section are scattered throughout the stem instead of in a cylindrical arrangement. The dicotyledonous woody xylem is also absent. The absence of secondary growth wood causes the stems of monocots, including the palms and large bamboos, to be columnar rather than tapering.

Bamboos include some of the fastest-growing plants in the world, due to a unique rhizome-dependent system. Certain species of bamboo can grow 910 mm (36 in) within a 24-hour period, at a rate of almost 40 mm (1+1⁄2 in) an hour (equivalent to 1 mm every 90 seconds). This rapid growth and tolerance for marginal land, make bamboo a good candidate for afforestation, carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation.

Bamboos are of notable economic and cultural significance in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia, being used for building materials, as a food source, and as a versatile raw product. Bamboo, like wood, is a natural composite material with a high strength-to-weight ratio useful for structures. Bamboo's strength-to-weight ratio is similar to timber, and its strength is generally similar to a strong softwood or hardwood timber.

Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo

Plant Trees Save Our Future Generations Tree Tagging Project at Taman Pakatan Jaya, Ipoh

10 Oct 2021

The Ipoh City Councillor (MBI) has planted 88 trees as part of the 1,500 pledged for 2021 at Taman Pakatan Jaya in Ipoh. This is part of the Perak Bumi Lestari Project which aims to plant 1 million trees by 2030. It is also in line with MBI’s Low Carbon City 2030 mission.

Three organisations, the Lions Club of Perak Silver State, Lions Club of Hillview Cameron Highlands and The Loyal Academy Sdn. Bhd. have teamed up to carry out tree tagging with Laminated QR Code on all the 88 trees in order to create awareness and educate the public on the importance of planting trees as well as to provide information about the trees planted and its carbon dioxide sequestration ability.

By scanning the QR code, the public will the be linked to a website containing the information about the trees planted.

Two major types of trees planted here include; the tembusu or Fragraea fragrans and the Bunga Tanjung or Mimusops elengi.

The tembusu or Fragraea fragrans can grow up to 25m tall. The wood can last over a hundred years, particularly as termites and beetles do not eat this kind of wood. The tree yields a high quality timber and an excellent fuel and charcoal. It is planted in reforestation and soil stabilization programmes and is also often planted as an ornamental and shade tree in parks and along roads.

The Bunga Tanjung or Mimusops elengi has other common names which include Spanish cherry, medlar, and bullet wood. Its timber is valuable, the fruit is edible, and it is used in traditional medicine. As the trees give thick shade and flowers emit fragrance, it is a prized collection of gardens. The tree can grow up to 16m with 1m circumference.

According to Dr. Richard Ng, Organising Chairman of the project who is also MBI’s Councillor, the trees are planted on the road reserved land, to provide shades and greenery to the surrounding areas. When matured within 5 to 10 years, each tree weighing 1,000 kg will be able to absorb about 3,670 kg CO2 a year. This means that these 88 trees will be able to absorb about 322,960 kg of CO2 a year and produce 120,000 kg of O2.

The temperature in this area will be much lower. The environment will be much greener with more oxygen produced making those people from about 1,000 households living here become healthier. Of course the price of the property will also increase as a result.

Thus, we hope that the people will appreciate what MBI is doing. They should help protect the trees here rather than destroying and replacing them with mango and rambutan trees.

The trees were planted along Laluan Hulu Bercham 1 as shown below:

 

These trees form part of the Perak Lestari 1,000,000 million trees programme and also the MBI Low Carbon City projects to save our planet Earth. Trees help to absorb carbon emission and lower earth temperature. Effort must be made to reduce the earth temperature to not more than 2 degrees Celcius.

The impact of global warming is real and climate change is already happening now. By 2050 if nothing is done, climate change will cause disaster worse than thee covid-19 pandemic now.

Each tree will be tied with a tag which contain information about the tree planted and when it was planted by MBI.

Two variety of trees were planted here. According to MBI Town and Landscape Department, the two types of trees are:

1. The tembusu or Fragraea fragrans

2. The Bunga Tanjung or Mimusops elengi

The tagging of trees come in the form of Lamintaed Card with QR code linking to this website.

1. The tembusu or Fragraea fragrans Tree

The tembusu is a large evergreen tree in the family Gentianaceae, native to Southeast Asia (from Indo-China to New Guinea). It is the Malay name for Cyrtophyllum fragrans (synonym Fagraea fragrans).

Its trunk is dark brown, with deeply fissured bark, looking somewhat like a bittergourd. The tree grows in an irregular shape from 10 to 25 metres high, with light green oval-shaped leaves, and yellowish flowers with a distinct fragrance. The fruits of the tree are bitter tasting red berries, which are eaten by Pteropus fruit bats.

The trunk of this tree can produce very hard wood that can be used to make chopping boards.

The wood can last over a hundred years, particularly as termites and weevils do not eat this kind of wood. People always use this wood for creating the floors of their homes and love to sleep on it.

The tree yields a high quality timber and an excellent fuel and charcoal. It is planted in reforestation and soil stabilization programmes and is also often planted as an ornamental and shade tree in parks and along roads.

For details: Fragraea Fragrans

2. The Bunga Tanjung or Mimusops elengi

Mimusops elengi is a medium-sized evergreen tree found in tropical forests in South Asia, Southeast Asia and northern Australia. English common names include Spanish cherry, medlar, and bullet wood. Its timber is valuable, the fruit is edible, and it is used in traditional medicine. As the trees give thick shade and flowers emit fragrance, it is a prized collection of gardens.

Its flower is the provincial flower of Yala Province, Thailand, as well as the city flower of Ampang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.

Bullet wood is an evergreen tree reaching a height of about 16 m (52 ft). It flowers in April, and fruiting occurs between June and October. The leaves are glossy, dark green, oval-shaped, 5–14 cm (2.0–5.5 in) long, and 2.5–6 cm (0.98–2.36 in) wide. The flowers are cream, hairy, and scented. The fruits are fleshy, range in color between yellow and brown, and contain a large brown seed. The pulp has a yellow color and it is edible. The bark of the tree is thick and appears dark brownish black or grayish black in colour, with striations and a few cracks on the surface. The tree may reach up to a height of 9–18 m (30–59 ft) with about 1 m (3 ft 3 in) in circumference.

For details: Mimusops elengi