Thean Hou road now concrete, no longer green

The road up to the Thean Hou temple in KL is very steep. It used to be nice and green with trees and vegetation. Then in March 2012 there were a series of landslides along that area.

After the landslides, some of the large trees were removed and the slopes just covered in the blue plastic so commonly seen on hillslopes in Malaysia.
June 2012 -

 New plastic Jan 2013 -

Mar 2013 on the road up to the temple, the vegetation has been cleared -

June 2013 work started to clear everything

 and the once green hill slopes were covered in concrete

Another green area gone.

© Liz Price

Silvered langurs at Kuala Selangor

Went to Kuala Selangor last evening (15 Mar 2010) and was really happy to see lots of silvered langurs on the road at Bukit Melawati  (Malawati). It's far more common to see macaques in Malaysia, especially in populated areas, so it was a very pleasant surprise to see these langurs.

The adults have dark grey fur and the paler tips give a silvery appearance. The infants are a contrasting orange colour. These arboreal monkeys eat leaves, shoots, fruits and flowers. A Malay man was selling bundles of beans to feed the monkeys. It was quite surprising to see that the macaques mostly kept away. Normally macaques are quite aggressive and opportunists.

See 2nd album Sept 2011.

macaque

macaque

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