Can we hear Mother Nature cry?

This is another article I read and I feel really sad about what's going on right now! Everywhere, one by one, the pristine jungle gone, clear stream turned turbid and what's there, vanished before we know what they were! SAD, really..

It's always "... clean up later" attitude that soon, not much is left for the next generation to enjoy.. We have rich flora and fauna, but we just don't know or not doing good enough to turn these natural resources into mony making industry.

I trully believe, if we saeriously want to promote nature-related tourisms, studies on natural history (read: flora and fauna) should be given priority. Such forest hosted plenty of natural resources that can be used to generate profit, but 'short-termed gain-thinker' had caused permenant losses of the great forest.

It's is so unfortunate that what can be enjoyed by many generation to comes, gone all at once..

Too bad..

To Hymier K.,
My friend, all the best to you.. What you did is novel.. Keep it up.. I'll join you, later.

UFOs are here!!!

I read about invasive species in the news recently (NST, 6 Oct 2008 - see picture below). Interestingly, only NOW people are aware about the danger this unwanted foreign organisms (UFOs) in our waters. Peacock bass has been in the country for many, many years. It was regarded as an excellent sport fish for it fighting ability when hooked but the damage it could has to the ecosystem is huge as it is one of the ferocious killing machine in our waters.

There are at least six species of peacock bass known to date. The biggest is probably Cichla temensis (speckled peacock bass, also known as three-barred peacock bass while spawning) that can grew up to 90cm long. One of the most popular species in ornamental fish trade is Cichla ocellaris (butterfly peacock bass). All adult male of peacock bass has a pronounced hump on their forehead. All species has a small black spot surrounded by a white circle on caudal fin that the name 'peacock' was adopted to the species.

I totally agree with.. "DHI Water and Environment Sdn Bhd environmental consultant Mohd Zambri Mohd Akhir is particularly concerned about the threat posed by the peacock bass."

It is not surprised to know ""Now you can find these fish in Chenderoh, the most downstream dam in Perak. If it enters the other river systems in Malaysia that has unique local species, it is going to cause irreversible damage," warned Zambri."

I believed Zambri (a friend of mine, btw) must has the proof as he is an avid angler, himself!

Apart from this species, our water has been invaded by more than 20 fish species of which its impact on local, native species is unknown!



To relevant authorities, it's not too late to control the invasion if YOU ACT NOW!!

To Zambri, I say "Good observation, bro!"

Uhh.. Need to give more umphhh here..

Stay with me.. More will be coming your way..

I try to put up more things here.. I promise..

The next one will be the pics of the guys doing works during the megasampling 0808!!

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Freshwater Fish Fauna of Malaysia - Introduction

This will be the 'introduction' to the page on freshwater fish fauna of Malaysia. I purposely choose to do a write up on freshwater fishes of Malaysia since we don't have one! So, this will cover fishes that inhabits inland water of Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak. It will take some times to complete but, what the heck.. I just do it slowly, at my own time.. Well, it is not going to be 'converted' to book but the possibility is there. From my pers. comm. with a few friends, soon there will be a 'great big book' on Freshwater Fishes of Southeast Asia! However, this will benefit anyone who is interested in fish fauna inhabits inland and to some extend, estuaries of Malaysia. Since it is on Malaysia, I shall includes material found in Peninsular Malaysia (Note. Not Malay Peninsular).

Since this will be something like 'picture-guided' page, entry will base on species-by-species. Surely, whatever picture I have, I try to put it here. Don't expect it to be the best, but I do hope it will help.. I'll try to give references where possible in pdf for anyone interested to 'explore' more. Else, I shall cited a few publications that are relevant.

Lim & Tan (2002) defining freshwater fish as "fish species that spend their adult lives and breed in freshwater beyond tidal influence". I'll used this definition throughout my entry. Nomenclature follows Lim & Tan (2002), except for the genus Systomus which replaces Puntius (after Rainboth, 1996: 103).

Freshwater Fish Fauna of Malaysia - Introduction

This will be the 'introduction' to the page on freshwater fish fauna of Malaysia. I purposely choose to do a write up on freshwater fishes of Malaysia since we don't have one! So, this will cover fishes that inhabits inland water of Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak. It will take some times to complete but, what the heck.. I just do it slowly, at my own time.. Well, it is not going to be 'converted' to book but the possibility is there. From my pers. comm. with a few friends, soon there will be a 'great big book' on Freshwater Fishes of Southeast Asia! However, this will benefit anyone who is interested in fish fauna inhabits inland and to some extend, estuaries of Malaysia. Since it is on Malaysia, I shall includes material found in Peninsular Malaysia (Note. Not Malay Peninsular).

Since this will be something like 'picture-guided' page, entry will base on species-by-species. Surely, whatever picture I have, I try to put it here. Don't expect it to be the best, but I do hope it will help.. I'll try to give references where possible in pdf for anyone interested to 'explore' more. Else, I shall cited a few publications that are relevant.

Lim & Tan (2002) defining freshwater fish as "fish species that spend their adult lives and breed in freshwater beyond tidal influence". I'll used this definition throughout my entry. Nomenclature follows Lim & Tan (2002), except for the genus Systomus which replaces Puntius (after Rainboth, 1996: 103).

Freshwater Fish Fauna of Malaysia - Introduction

This will be the 'introduction' to the page on freshwater fish fauna of Malaysia. I purposely choose to do a write up on freshwater fishes of Malaysia since we don't have one! So, this will cover fishes that inhabits inland water of Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak. It will take some times to complete but, what the heck.. I just do it slowly, at my own time.. Well, it is not going to be 'converted' to book but the possibility is there. From my pers. comm. with a few friends, soon there will be a 'great big book' on Freshwater Fishes of Southeast Asia! However, this will benefit anyone who is interested in fish fauna inhabits inland and to some extend, estuaries of Malaysia. Since it is on Malaysia, I shall includes material found in Peninsular Malaysia (Note. Not Malay Peninsular).

Since this will be something like 'picture-guided' page, entry will base on species-by-species. Surely, whatever picture I have, I try to put it here. Don't expect it to be the best, but I do hope it will help.. I'll try to give references where possible in pdf for anyone interested to 'explore' more. Else, I shall cited a few publications that are relevant.

Lim & Tan (2002) defining freshwater fish as "fish species that spend their adult lives and breed in freshwater beyond tidal influence". I'll used this definition throughout my entry. Nomenclature follows Lim & Tan (2002), except for the genus Systomus which replaces Puntius (after Rainboth, 1996: 103).