（此文已在2007年10月16日《星洲日报》言论版刊登）
雪兰莪州巴生市议会于6个月前，以实验方式在一个巴生中路设立“垃圾回收及再循环中心”
上述中心的运作方式是市民主动将民宅垃圾送到该中心回收
当局发现，上述中心启用后，一些路段的沿途垃圾减少
鉴于上述种种好处，雪州行政议员拿督庄祷融于是建议在各地方政府设
垃圾问题困扰我国政府已久，巴生市议会的实验若正如报道所言
房屋及地方部官员多年来周游列国考察各地的废料管理方法后
政府还将拨出10亿令吉成立一个机构，全权处理全国各地的垃圾，地方政府在处理废料
若将这项巴生市议会的每公斤付10仙的概念扩大进行，意味着一些地方政府可以省下聘请垃圾承包商的费
说实在，房屋地方政府部在提呈法新案以来，根本没有提出什么根本上
北京政府为了应付人口稠密、迎接奥运会激增的垃圾问题
新法案的实质内涵将如何影响民生及市议会的操作？笔者认为
在特定地区设立垃圾回收及再循环中心的方法若可取
在损益表上，或许当局也应该算一算，每公斤10仙的垃圾是否足于补贴居民驱车倒垃圾的所耗费的燃油，还有
民主行动党副主席兼怡保西区国会议员古拉于2007年9月20日，在八打灵再也发表声明：
长尾猴的出口禁令解除，将导致它们被残忍地杀害成为食物
天然资源及环境部长拿督斯里阿兹米卡立一定要澄清他本身自相矛盾的
长尾猴被列在《濒危野生动植物种国际贸易公约》（CITES）附录二里。而在我国1972年野生动物保护法令里，长尾猴被列为二级受保护动物（Schedule Two, Part III），
我们为部长发表的似是而非的言论深表关注。我们置疑他允许受保护动
阿兹米必须回答下列问题：
长尾猴的栖息地已经在杂乱无序的发展中受到严重破坏
古拉
Media statement by DAP vice chairman and MP for Ipoh Barat M.Kula Segaran on Thursday, September 20, 2007 in Petaling Jaya.
Lifting the export ban of long-tailed macaques will result in their slaughter for the cooking pot or being subjected to cruel experiments in laboratories.
The Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk Seri Azmi Khalid must clarify his contradictory statement that“The ban on the export of the long-tailed macaque has not been lifted, only monkeys in the cities would be caught and exported.” He is clearly in breach of the Protection of Wild Life Act 1972.
Long-tailed macaques are listed on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species(Cites). It is also classified as “Protected Wild Animals” under the our Protection of Wildlife Act 1972 (Schedule Two, Part III).
We are deeply concerned about the paradoxical statement made by the Minister. We would also like to question his motives for allowing protected species to be exported overseas. These poor wildlife primates will be destined for the cooking pot and be subjected to horrendous suffering in the experiment laboratories. This is clearly a cruel and inhumane act by the Minister.
Azmi has to answer the questions:
1.Who and which company will profit financially from the export of macaques, as well as their torture and death?
2.What evidence has the Ministry gathered to prove that there is a serious overpopulation problem? Non-detrimental finding (NDF) provided by the Perhilitan are being suspected as it is almost impossible to determine in the wildlife inventory. Wildlife population estimates normally appear as range.Macaque habitats have been progressively destroyed due to indiscriminate development. Human always think that we are greatest living beings. It appears that we have forgotten that the animals were here before us and they need more protection than humans. We must always look at the wild animals as part and parcel of the Mother Nature for they are god’s gift and should not to be destroyed.
M. Kula Segaran
民主行动党中委及非政府组织局主任刘天球于2007年9月11日，在士拉央发表声明：
马上停止捉狗比赛
我们对于士拉央县议会举办的捉狗比赛表达深切关注。
在士拉央县议会的网站上刊登了关于上述比赛的一项广告，这项广告所传达的讯息极为残忍及不可理喻。
我们认同，为了要生活在一个健康及安全的环境，我们有必要控制流浪狗的数量以避免它们数量过多，然而，一项捉狗比赛不会是一个解决方案，它只会制造更多问题。我们基于下列理由，反对通过捉狗比赛来控制流浪狗的数量：
(1) 未受过训练的居民可能会伤害到自己。这些流浪狗不惯于接触人类，一旦被逼入困境，它们可能会攻击捕捉者。
(2) 丰厚的奖金将吸引一些人士，不择手段地进行捕捉行动以获奖，他们可能使用一些不人道的方法捉狗，导致狗儿受伤。.
(3) 这将间接鼓励人们捉狗甚至偷取家犬、宠物。
除此之外，难道我们的县议会就是这样花费向我们征收的门牌税及租税吗？那些可是我们的血汗钱。这笔多达5万令吉的奖金，应该被用在公众教育，以及一些更主动积极的措施如绝育、区分已阉割及未阉割狗只的执照、负责任的宠物主运动，同时，立法惩罚那些抛弃宠物的人士。
我们的县议会已经被骄纵恣肆太久了，以致他们无需为他们所浪费的一分一毫做出具公信力及透明的交待，而他们在浪费公款方面，也显得越来越有创意。
我们促请士拉内县议会马上停止捉狗比赛。
Media statement by DAP CEC Member and NGO Bureau Chief Ronnie Liu Tian
Khiew on Tuesday, September 11, 2007 in Selayang.
DAP: Stop the Dog Catching Competition immediately!
We are deeply concerned about the Dog Catching Competition which is
organized by the Selayang Municipal Council (MPS).
The messages come out from the advertisement on the Selayang Municipal
Council's website were utterly cruel and ridiculous.
l The first-prize winner will get RM15, 000; the second-prize winnerl
will get RM13, 000 and the third -prize winner will win RM11, 000.
l The minimum number of dogs capture for the top three winners must bel
at least 150 dogs each.
l Each month, the council pays RM20 for each stray dog caught as anl
incentive to the dog-catchers.
While we agree that action to control stray dogs are necessary for reasons of safety and healthy environment and to avoid overpopulation, a dog-catching competition is hardly a solution but will only create a bigger problem. We object to the idea of controlling population of stray dogs through the dog-catching competition with lucrative prizes due to the following reasons:
(1)Residents are not trained and could hurt themselves. These stray dogs are not used to human contact and if cornered, they might attack those who try to catch them.
(2)The prizes were generous and would certainly draw desperate people who would resort to any means to catch dogs. They may harm or injure the dogs and may use inhumane methods.
(3)This will indirectly encourage people to catch dogs and perhaps even steal house pets.
On top of that, is this how our municipal councils are going to spend our hard-earned money from the increase in assessment and quit rent rates? The amount of money, which is more than RM50, 000, should be spent on public education, and more pro-active measures should be put into practice such as active sterilization programs, different licensing for neutered and unneutered dogs, responsible pet ownership programs and making abandonment an offence under municipal by-laws.
For too long our municipal councilors have not been held accountable and transparent for their spendthrift expenditure and they are getting more and more innovative in their extravagant spending.
We urge the MPS to stop the Dog Catching Competition immediately.
Ronnie Liu
KUALA LUMPUR: The ban on the export of the long-tailed macaque has not been lifted, Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk Seri Azmi Khalid clarified.
“I did not use the word 'lift'. The media quoted me wrongly,” he told a press conference during the Malaysian Energy and Climate Change Dialogue yesterday.
Instead, he said, only monkeys in the cities would be caught and exported.
On Aug 18, Azmi was quoted as saying that the Cabinet had in June agreed to lift the ban on the export of the monkeys found in urban areas, as there were numerous complaints that the monkeys had stolen food and attacked people.
“The proposal to catch and export the monkeys was only to reduce their numbers in cities because they are causing problems,” he said, adding that the monkey population in Malaysia was more than 700,000, with 250,000 in urban areas.
“We don’t allow the monkeys from the jungle to be caught and exported,” he added.
Catching those in the cities and exporting them did not mean the export ban was lifted, he explained.
“We are only controlling the numbers in the cities. People can catch them and do what they want with them. If they want to export them, we allow it,” he said.
Asked whether licences had been issued to exporters of monkeys caught in the cities, Azmi said no. He said the Government had moved the monkeys to their natural habitat but they seldom survived because the monkeys there would kill them.
Efforts to sterilise these monkeys did not work because those not sterilised bred quickly, he added. (DID they ever sterilise monkeys over the last 20 years? )
HILARY CHEW meanwhile reports that the Malaysian Animal Rights and Welfare Society’s (Roar) president N. Surendransaid the minister’s explanation was highly confusing and misleading.
Roar is the umbrella body of local animal rights groups.
“Allowing urban monkeys to be hunted almost certainly will lead to trapping of monkeys in the jungle,” he said, adding that the group doubted the Wildlife Department would have enough resources to monitor the hunting or the capability to differentiate between urban and jungle monkeys.
Roar yesterday handed a memorandum to Azmi demanding that the minister reinstate the ban.
