{"id":879,"date":"2006-09-07T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=879"},"modified":"2006-10-10T14:35:33","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T06:35:33","slug":"877-of-quiz-of-sipadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=879","title":{"rendered":"[877] Of quiz of Sipadan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between a MYR 5 million<\/s> 2 million project on a island versus illegal divers, which do you think would bring about greater problem?<\/p>\n

Why do I ask this?<\/p>\n

Well. It’s simply because the state government of Sabah approves<\/a> the construction of tourist facilities on Sipadan… :<\/p>\n

SEMPORNA: Chief Minister Datuk Musa Aman has given the go-ahead for the construction of tourist facilities on the eco-sensitive diving haven of Sipadan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…and then acts as if the presence of illegal divers around Sipadan is a greater issue<\/a>, while ignoring the effects of erecting a MYR 2 million facility on the island’s environment:<\/p>\n

KOTA KINABALU: An increasing number of divers are going to the environmentally sensitive diving haven of Pulau Sipadan, off the east coast of Sabah, illegally.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Remember who and what caused the damage to the reefs at Sipadan last May<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This probably going to be another Tioman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read what a scuba site has to say<\/a>:<\/p>\n

SIPADAN, Malaysia (5 Sep 2006) — First the PADI scuba diving companies in Malaysia that polluted Sipadan refused to comply with a government eviction notice.<\/p>\n

Then they enthusiastically endorsed a scheme to construct toilets on the tiny island even after the toilet construction barge completely wiped out one of Sipadan’s renowned coral reefs.<\/p>\n

Now those same PADI scuba diving companies are flagrantly ignoring a marine park permit system aimed at reducing the impact of tourism on the ravaged island.<\/p>\n

Welcome to ‘sustainable’ (sic) scuba diving tourism in Malaysia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah. Welcome to Malaysia, where sustainable development means destroying the environment and eco-tourism means building chalets, toilets and anything that bring comforts in the middle of supposedly nowhere.<\/p>\n

\"Mohd \"Mohd \"Mohd<\/p>\n

p\/s – I didn’t realize that PETA is active in Malaysia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

KUALA LUMPUR: A sorry-looking sheep with one leg bandaged created quite a stir in front of the Australian High Commission building in Jalan Yap Kwan Seng yesterday.<\/p>\n

Leaning on a crutch and holding a placard that read Stop Sheep Abuse! Boycott Australian Wool, it caused many motorists to do a double take.<\/p>\n

The creature was actually a representative of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) Asia-Pacific participating in the animal rights group’s protest against the mutilation and live export of sheep from Australia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While I don’t necessarily support everything that PETA says, I do take yesterday’s protest as a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Between a MYR 5 million 2 million project on a island versus illegal divers, which do you think would bring about greater problem? Why do I ask this? Well. It’s simply because the state government of Sabah approves the construction of tourist facilities on Sipadan… : SEMPORNA: Chief Minister Datuk Musa Aman has given the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}