After December’s floods claimed at least 54 lives, several non-governmental organisations (NGOs) urged the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to push for a 25-year nationwide moratorium on logging.

They also want the entire Titiwangsa forest complex, which runs along the Titiwangsa mountain range in Peninsular Malaysia, to be gazetted as a national park to ensure its protection.

This afternoon, the NGOs submitted a memorandum of their demands to the Istana Negara in Kuala Lumpur.