{"id":70959,"date":"2020-04-21T00:24:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T16:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=70959"},"modified":"2020-04-21T00:30:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T16:30:25","slug":"cause-of-kuala-langat-forest-yet-to-be-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=70959","title":{"rendered":"Cause of Kuala Langat forest yet to be known"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, April 21 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;\u00a0The cause of fire at\u00a0Compartment 21 of the Kuala Langat Selatan Forest Reserve\u00a0has yet to be determined, said\u00a0Forestry Department of Peninsular Malaysia director-general\u00a0Datuk Mohd Ridza Awang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the current hot and dry weather was contributing to the fire that started on&nbsp;April 18 in the 65-hectare area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn addition, the location which is a peat swamp forest&nbsp;can also be the cause of the fire,\u201d he said in a statement here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the risk of fire&nbsp;in such areas would be higher if there were external factors that could have triggered such incidents such as land&nbsp;encroachment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohd Ridza said enforcement personnel from the state Forestry Department would continue to&nbsp;conduct patrols&nbsp;to curb any activity that violated the National Forestry Act 1984&nbsp;during&nbsp;the Movement Control Order (MCO) period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone who has information pertaining to forest fire or encroachment&nbsp;can contact the department hotline at&nbsp;012-710 6004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, April 21 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;\u00a0The cause of fire at\u00a0Compartment 21 of the Kuala Langat Selatan Forest Reserve\u00a0has yet to be determined, said\u00a0Forestry Department of Peninsular Malaysia director-general\u00a0Datuk Mohd Ridza Awang. He said the current hot and dry weather was contributing to the fire that started on&nbsp;April 18 in the 65-hectare area. \u201cIn addition, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":63304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70959"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}