In order to better understand the distribution of endemic land snail species in and around one limestone hill in the State of Perak – Gunung Kanthan – the quarry operator, Lafarge Malaysia, provided a research grant to scientists from Universiti Malaysia Sabah and Rimba in 2016 to conduct a large-scale survey of land snails at 12 limestone ...

Lafarge Malaysia Bhd, which is currently extracting limestone from Zones A and B for cement production, is conducting its own studies in the area, with its Kanthan plant manager Sekar Kaliannan saying last year that initial studies of Zone C indicated it "does not contain sensitive biodiversity".

The hill is scheduled for quarrying by the Lafarge Malaysia cement company, which has a high It is apparently restricted to the isolated limestone hill Gunung Kanthan in Peninsular Malaysia. (PDF) 'Charopa' lafargei (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Charopidae), a new, presumed narrowly endemic species from Peninsular Malaysia | Marzuki Mohammad Effendi ...

A large, 26 metre deep lake smack right a the middle of the rocky terrain is all that is left of Bukit Panching, a 134m tall limestone outcrop overlooking it's larger sister mountain, Bukit Charas. Located 25km from Kuantan, on the East Coast of Peninsula Malaysia, these 400-million-years old karsts are part of the Panching Limestone Formation.

Syarikat Cheng Sun Quarry Sdn Bhd is principally involved in the quarrying of limestone for processing into fine calcium carbonate powder. Cheng Sun's plant and factory are in Keramat Pulai, near Ipoh. The raw material which is high quality limestone, is obtained from an adjoining 9-acre limestone hill belonging to the company.

This beautiful, dainty snail, known only from a single limestone hill at Bukit Panching, Pahang, in Peninsular Malaysia, went extinct in mid 2000s when a cement company quarried the hill for limestone. Several other species of the Plectostoma snails — referred to as "microjewels" for their ethereally designed shells — are spiraling ...

So it has proved for the now extinct Plectostoma sciaphilum, a rather beautiful snail that lived only on a single limestone hill in Peninsular Malaysia. A cement company blew up the entire hill ...

Thus, a conservation plan is needed to mitigate the impact of the ongoing quarry on the land snail biodiversity in the limestone hills in Perak. Among the limestone hills in Perak, Foon et al. (2017) found that Gunung Kanthan, a limestone hill gazetted for quarrying, has the highest number of land snail species and half a dozen of unique species.

Karst limestone hills throughout SE Asia are under severe threat as the demand for cement and other limestone products (Clements et al. 2006) frequently takes precedence over conservation of biodiversity, eco-tourism, recreation, culture (cave temples) and their iconic landscape value (Kiew 1997).Peninsular Malaysia is no exception and it is common to see karst hills scarred …

A Tiny Rare Snail In Malaysia Has Big Consequences For Global Cement Giant. For the first time ever, a 'new' species has been named after the company that has the power to either conserve or destroy it. It's a snail and, although small, has the potential to leave a permanent legacy for a giant global business. The snail in question was ...

Forest monks in Malaysia hope to continue their tradition of ecological stewardship in cave temples

We are one of the largest limestone lumps (calcium carbonate lumps) producer in Malaysia. Our humble limestone hill and quarry plant are located in Ipoh town, state of Perak, with the size of approximately 25 acres of limestone deposits, mineral resources approximately 55 million tons.

Lafarge, a cement and concrete maker, has been converting a limestone hill in Malaysia into a quarry. All in a day's work: harvest some stone, make some concrete and wipe out an entire species . Charopa lafargei is a newly discovered snail that lives only on that limestone hill being mined by Lafarge - and the similarity in names is not by chance.

The company, ASN Cement, intends to quarry the limestone karst which locals call Chiku 7, for raw materials to produce cement clinker. The project appears to be a replacemen­t for a similar one in Merapoh, Pahang, which was abandoned two years ago following public protests and the discovery of extensive cave systems, new species of geckos and ...

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rence in Malaysia. It occurs in veins in an abandoned limestone quarry. It has not been prospected to ascertain its economic potential. LOCATION AND ACCESS The sepiolite is found about 14 km by road to the southeast ofIpoh, in a small unnamed limestone hill just south of Gunung Terendam (Figure 1). It is

Kanthan cave in Peninsular Malaysia is located in a limestone hill, already extensively quarried for the production of cement by Lafarge. The cave, just as most karst caves in Southeast Asia ...

Batu caves, is a great limestone hill, situated in the northeast outskirts of Kuala Lumpur's metropolitan area, roughly 13 kilometres from the city centre. The lovely nature atmosphere, waterfalls and the cultural significance of this impressive network of mountain caves, makes the site seems bewitching and comfortable and far away from the skyscrapers and any…

In 2016, scientists from Universiti Malaysia Sabah and Rimba which is a non-government organisation conducted a large-scale survey of land snails at 12 limestone hills in Perak with a grant provided by the quarry operator Lafarge Malaysia.

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A cement company in Malaysia, which owned limestone quarries totalling 1.3 square kilometres, historically generated about US$150 million in revenue from just one year of cement production. Quarrying is now regarded as the primary threat to the survival of karst-associated species, and it will certainly exacerbate the biodiversity crisis in ...

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The country's biggest cement clinker plant is set to come up there, at a site some 30km from Gua Musang. The company, ASN Cement, intends to quarry the limestone karst which locals call Chiku 7, for raw materials to produce cement clinker.

A few cement quarry projects manage get licenses although they would destroy prominent limestone hills known for their unique biodiversity. One limestone hill in Pahang, previously threatened by ...

The STAR, Thursday March 5, 2015. PETALING JAYA: Quarrying at Perak's Gunung Kanthan by cement giant Lafarge Malaysia has alarmed green groups, who say work has encro­ached close to "sensitive" areas. According to a source, a small hill within the limestone mountain's southern area was cut down in January.

The entire hill, however, has been leased since the 1960s by the state government to licensed quarry operator and cement maker Associated Pan Malaysia Cement. The company is a subsidiary of YTL's cement arm, Malayan Cement …

24 August 2014 (mongabay.com) – Scientists have discovered a new snail species on a limestone hill near a cement quarry in Malaysia, which as far as they know lives nowhere else in the world. The animal's shell is only one tenth of an inch in size.

elephas on a limestone hill. To date, the limestone hill in Perak is the only location where a sizeable living population of P. elephas is found based on several systematic samplings of land snails throughout limestone hills in Peninsular Malaysia (Chan, 1997; Clements et al., 2008; Foon, Clements & Liew, 2017).

These two quarries (Debbestone Quarry and Yong Shin Quarry) share a continuous outcrop profile that is exposed over some 1000 m. However, this paper focuses on the Debbestone Quarry, located at the southeastern edge of the Subis Limestone, as the Yong Shin Quarry is not permitted to enter Fig. 3.

At Gua Gunting, the hill which will be quarried, they recorded over 200 plant species in just two days. This is hardly surprising as limestone hills are known for their rich plant diversity. Peninsular Malaysia's limestone hills cover only 0.3% of the land area but are home to 14% of her plant species.

A new species of snail has been discovered in a limestone quarry in malaysia, run by global cement giant Lafarge. Photograph: P T Ong Photograph: /P T Ong Mon 25 Aug 2014 02.00 EDT

Scientists have discovered a new snail species on a limestone hill near a cement quarry in Malaysia, which as far as they know lives nowhere else in the world. The animal's shell is only one ...

A new, presumed narrowly endemic species of snail has been discovered in a limestone quarry in Malaysia run by Lafarge. The new species of snail, discovered by Fendie Marzuki and Thor Seng Liew at the northern end of Gunung Kanthan, Malaysia, has been named 'Charopa lafargei', recognising that most of the hill is within a concession run by Lafarge …

Gunung Kanthan near Chemor, Perak, 04°45'50.0"N, 101°07'21.2"E, is a limestone massif on the verge of irreversibly losing its priceless geological, biological, cultural, tourist and recreational values to quarrying for cement (Kiew et al. 2013). Since the 1960s a cement quarry has operated at the northern part of Gunung Kanthan (Fig. 1A).

Malaysia: Quarrying at Gunung Kanthan, Perak by Lafarge Malaysia has alarmed green groups, who said that work has encro¬ached close to 'sensitive' areas. A small hill within the limestone mountain's southern area was reportedly mined in January 2015. Concern that rocks from Area B where the hill was located would be strewn along the adjacent Area C have …

Here, we compile Malaysia's first limestone hill GIS map for 1384 limestone hills based on information from field surveys, geological reports and scientific literature. To …