Abstract
The quickening pace of modernisation in Malaysia is leading to a corresponding acceleration in man's impact on the natural environment of the region. It is shown that the tropical rainforest of Peninsular Malaysia is under heavy attack from a number of economic activities, the most important of these being tin-mining, the exploitation of the jungle for tropical hardwoods, and the removal of extensive areas of natural forest for agricultural expansion. Some of the ecological effects of these activities are briefly discussed and, by way of contrast, compared with man/environment relations in less technically and economically advanced societies. It is suggested that there is an urgent need to preserve, conserve and manage portions of Peninsular Malaysia's rainforest for the economic, aesthetic, recreational and ecological requirements of future generations.
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