ENVIROMENTAL PROBLEM FACING BY MY COUNTRY TODAY

Malaysia, one of the 'Asian tiger' economies, has enjoyed remrkable growth over the last few decades, with industriliziation, agriculture and tourism playing leading roles in this success story. But today, despite a relatively positive enviromental record, Malaysia faces problem of deforestation, pollution of inland and marine waters, soil, and coastal erosion, overfishing and coral reef destruction, along with ar pollution, water pollution and the problem of waste disposal.

oil palm plantations are a prevalemt feature of the Malaysian landscape, as this industry has become a major contributor to the country's export earnings. The increase in palm oil production has been driven by strong global demand for oils and fats, notably from europe and china

However, this expansion of land  for oil palm cultivation has taken place at the expenses of lowland tropical forests, which are ecologically sensitives habitats. this is because the remaining forest is fragment, elephants are forced to move throuh plantations and smallholdings to get from one patch to another.

They prefer to use on dry ground, so during floods they are also forced into agricultural land, sometimes causing considerable damage. Habitat fragmentation has also affected the orangutan pollution and others species of high conversation priority.