LEMBAH Pantai MP Datuk Fahmi Fadzil desires aspects of neighborhood background included in the Urban Park at Bukit Kerinchi Forest Reserve landscape style and plant choice.
“In Kuala Lumpur, there are communities that have been in certain areas long before the city was developed,” he stated.
“I was also told that parts of Kampung Kerinchi were where local folk used to look for bamboo to sell.
“So, I hope that historical elements such as this can be incorporated into the design or selection of trees for the park.”
Fahmi, that is additionally Communications Minister, was talking after the Urban Park groundbreaking event held at the woodland book.
Also existing were IJM Land ceo Datuk Tony Ling, Amona Group ceo and supervisor Datuk Che Hasnadi Che Hassan, and Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) exec supervisor (preparation) Datuk Zulkurnain Hassan.
Fahmi shared that DBKL has actually started a rewilding effort around the book.
“When the team comprising DBKL’s Landscape Department, Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) and arborists assessed the trees here, they discovered that most were rubber trees because of the rubber estate that was previously here,” he stated.
(Front row, from left) Che Hasnadi, Ling, Fahmi and Zulkurnain at the groundbreaking event for Urban Park at Taman Rimba Bukit Kerinchi, Kuala Lumpur.– Photos: ONG SOON HIN/The Star
“In order to properly repopulate this area with flora and fauna, we have to plant trees that are more indigenous to this location.
“Those efforts were stymied because of the Covid-19 pandemic but have since resumed,” he included.
Fahmi stated component of the rewilding included growing a selection of trees and constructing a brand-new accessibility factor near the Lembah Pantai Community Centre.
He explained the effort as comparable to the one embarked on in Pulai Trail, a public environment-friendly area on Federal Hill.
“A community in Bangsar Park worked together with non-governmental organisation Free Tree Society to identify local plant species that they could plant alongside the pulai trees that have been in Federal Hill for six or seven decades,” he shared.
Urban Park will certainly aid make certain the area of Pantai Sentral Park is linked, lasting and community-focused.
It is a 23ha job established by IJM Land and Amona Group of Companies.
The 0.35 ha Urban Park will certainly have strolling tracks, common event areas and shaded locations.
It will certainly additionally act as the straight 3rd accessibility to treking courses within the 66ha Bukit Kerinchi Forest Reserve, which surrounds the 36ha Bukit Gasing Forest Reserve in Petaling Jaya.
Urban Park will certainly have biodiverse landscape design including trees and pollinator yards that include over 30 plant types.
It will certainly be connected to a future MRT3 terminal through a protected pathway throughout the Pantai Sentral Park area, called “Ribbon of Life”.
Urban Park will certainly additionally have the ability to host health courses, family-friendly tasks and also academic programs in collaboration with neighborhood colleges.
“More than just natural scenery and a green space, Urban Park will be a community meeting point,” stated Ling.
“With this ease of access, we hope to encourage more people to embrace the natural beauty existing here within the city.
“We believe that great communities are not merely built with bricks and roads, but with shared spaces that invite people to come together, creating bonds that last.”
