MALAYSIAN WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY

                                                                Juru GPS Location: N 05 18.831   E 100 24.732 Location of Juru, Batu Kawan and Byram Local fishing fleet at Juru Juru, Batu Kawan and Byram   are mainland Penang locations that face Penang island. They are accessed from Penang Island via consecutive off-roads along the North-South Highway with Juru being the first in line on the Southern drive. The shooting territory at Juru consists of a reasonably wide  road that runs parallel to a mangrove forest that is interspersed with inlets hosting a local fishing fleets.   Segments of the road abut the forest directly while others have a tidal ‘ditch’ in between the road and the forest. The road runs North and South so the morning sun lights the forest well. Discerning nature ph...

Diagram of the shooting location at Byram (orange road) The rubbish mound between the pond reflection and the clouds A rainbow at the entrance to the estuary When I came to live on Penang Island I was given three GPS locations, which were the recommended bird photography sites. One of these was adjacent to the large refuse dump at Byram. The dump is located on mainland Penang, on the coast facing Penang Island. The Pulau Burung Landfill Site (PBLS) is a semi-aerobic landfill located in Byram Forest Reserve. The total area of landfill is 63.5ha which receives 2,200 tons of solid waste daily. The site was established in 1991. Landfill is the technique most employed worldwide for the disposal of municipal solid waste in developing countries such as Malaysia. In landfills solid waste decomposes through a series of combined physiochemical and biological processes giving rise to an extremely polluted liquid called landfill leachate. The poisone...