Residents up in arms over forest clearing at Shah Alam’s Bukit Cerakah

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An excavator carrying out earth works at the construction site at Bukit Cerakah forest reserve.SHAH ALAM: Residents living beside the Bukit Cerakah forest reserve here are angry over a property development taking place nearby at a forest reserve overlooking a lake, but the developer says the plot of land has been degazetted. Construction work had been ongoing despite the restrictions of the movement control order (MCO, according to a residents association member, Yuga Shanti. “This is a water catchment area and the development will pollute the natural lake,” she told FMT during a site visit to the area, known as Perdana Heights. This area, part of Shah Alam’s green lung Bukit Cerakah, used to be a dense forest.There were concerns about the effect on wildlife, such as tapir and other animals. A tigress had been found to have delivered at the forest. In 2008, Shah Alam mayor Mazalan…