PETALING JAYA, Sept 26 — The Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) is continuing its efforts to strengthen the rehabilitation of Taman Aman Lake through the launch of a conservation education cabin that will also facilitate water quality monitoring.
Petaling Jaya Deputy Mayor Sharinaz Samsudin said the initiative aims to ensure the lake’s ecosystem, including its fish and other aquatic life, remains safe and clean.
“We want to ensure that the lake water is within clean indicators or controlled at a clean level. The lake conservation education cabin will function as a small laboratory to monitor and measure the cleanliness of water at Taman Aman Lake.
“The lake also needs to be kept clean to ensure the sustainability of the ecosystem and the wellbeing of all lake users,” she said during the Lake Day and Malaysia Clean-Up Day celebration at Taman Aman today.
The initiative involves MBPJ, the Global Environment Centre (GEC), the Association of Friends of Taman Aman, and Google, with the Taman Aman rehabilitation project strengthened since September 2024 through collaboration with GEC and Google support using a nature-based solutions approach.
“The importance of awareness programmes, cleanliness, and environmental sustainability needs to be implemented,” she said, referring to the participation of residents, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), schools, and other stakeholders.
As part of the initiative, a fishing programme was held to help control invasive fish species, followed by the release of 290 native tinfoil barbs (ikan lampam) by MBPJ and GEC to support restoration of the lake’s original ecosystem.
About 300 participants comprising residents’ associations, schools, NGOs, and MBPJ staff also took part in Hari Cuci Malaysia clean-up activities at Taman Aman, Taman Medan, and Kampung Selamat.
Sharinaz added that the participation extended beyond Petaling Jaya, with people from other cities including Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, also joining the programme.
“This means that the awareness is there. The importance of awareness programmes, cleanliness, and environmental sustainability needs to be implemented,” she said.
The participation and amount of waste collected will be recorded and reported as part of the nationwide initiative targeting 200,000 participants for a Malaysia Book of Records achievement.
Sharinaz hopes the initiatives will contribute to social change towards a cleaner, greener, sustainable and prosperous Petaling Jaya.
