Urban green space and urban biodiversity: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Urban green space plays an important role in enhancing the quality of environment especially for urban biodiversity. Declining biodiversity around the world has received much attention among academics, professionals and citizens. The United Nations has declared year 2010 as the ‘International Year...

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Main Authors:	Karuppannan, Sadasivam, Baharuddin, Zainul Mukrim, Sivam, Alpana, Daniels, Chris B.
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Language:	English English
Published:	Canadian Center of Science and Education 2014
Subjects:	GE Environmental Sciences
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spelling	iium-374862017-09-19T01:58:52Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/37486/ Urban green space and urban biodiversity: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Karuppannan, Sadasivam Baharuddin, Zainul Mukrim Sivam, Alpana Daniels, Chris B. GE Environmental Sciences Urban green space plays an important role in enhancing the quality of environment especially for urban biodiversity. Declining biodiversity around the world has received much attention among academics, professionals and citizens. The United Nations has declared year 2010 as the ‘International Year of Biodiversity’. Urban biodiversity movement is important to ensure healthy city environments. Despite this ongoing movement, urban dwellers have little knowledge about conservation of biodiversity particularly wildlife. Moreover, biodiversity has received little attention from built environment practices (Brown & Grant, 2005; Niemelä, 1999). In general, urban wildlife habitat is protected as reserved forest. Many species of wildlife are generally found in such reserved forests. In comparison, the scale of urban parks in Kuala Lumpur is massive, much larger than protected forests. This paper presents the situation of urban wildlife species and the quality of habitats in Kuala Lumpur. It is found that many factors contribute to the healthy conservation of urban wildlife such as quality and variety of habitats, ornamental versus native vegetation and ecological design. The findings highlight that common urban birds are dominant in urban green spaces regardless of the size of the green spaces. However, only larger urban green spaces help protect species. Finally, the study concludes that urban wildlife in Kuala Lumpur is rapidly declining and that there is a greater need for the community and stakeholders to promote programs and activities to preserve and enhance urban wildlife. Development of comprehensive acts, policies and guidelines are vital for urban wildlife protection. Keywords: urban wildlife, ecological design, wildlife management, urban green space, conservation Canadian Center of Science and Education 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/37486/1/J._Sustainable_Development_Zainul_2014.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/37486/4/37486_urban%20green%20space_scopus.pdf Karuppannan, Sadasivam and Baharuddin, Zainul Mukrim and Sivam, Alpana and Daniels, Chris B. (2014) Urban green space and urban biodiversity: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Journal of Sustainable Development, 7 (1). pp. 1-16. ISSN 1913-9071 (O), 1913-9063 (P) http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jsd/article/view/32893
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description	Urban green space plays an important role in enhancing the quality of environment especially for urban biodiversity. Declining biodiversity around the world has received much attention among academics, professionals and citizens. The United Nations has declared year 2010 as the ‘International Year of Biodiversity’. Urban biodiversity movement is important to ensure healthy city environments. Despite this ongoing movement, urban dwellers have little knowledge about conservation of biodiversity particularly wildlife. Moreover, biodiversity has received little attention from built environment practices (Brown & Grant, 2005; Niemelä, 1999). In general, urban wildlife habitat is protected as reserved forest. Many species of wildlife are generally found in such reserved forests. In comparison, the scale of urban parks in Kuala Lumpur is massive, much larger than protected forests. This paper presents the situation of urban wildlife species and the quality of habitats in Kuala Lumpur. It is found that many factors contribute to the healthy conservation of urban wildlife such as quality and variety of habitats, ornamental versus native vegetation and ecological design. The findings highlight that common urban birds are dominant in urban green spaces regardless of the size of the green spaces. However, only larger urban green spaces help protect species. Finally, the study concludes that urban wildlife in Kuala Lumpur is rapidly declining and that there is a greater need for the community and stakeholders to promote programs and activities to preserve and enhance urban wildlife. Development of comprehensive acts, policies and guidelines are vital for urban wildlife protection. Keywords: urban wildlife, ecological design, wildlife management, urban green space, conservation
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author	Karuppannan, Sadasivam Baharuddin, Zainul Mukrim Sivam, Alpana Daniels, Chris B.
author_facet	Karuppannan, Sadasivam Baharuddin, Zainul Mukrim Sivam, Alpana Daniels, Chris B.
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title	Urban green space and urban biodiversity: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
title_short	Urban green space and urban biodiversity: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
title_full	Urban green space and urban biodiversity: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
title_fullStr	Urban green space and urban biodiversity: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Urban green space and urban biodiversity: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
title_sort	urban green space and urban biodiversity: kuala lumpur, malaysia
publisher	Canadian Center of Science and Education
publishDate	2014
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Urban green space and urban biodiversity: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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