Sekitar Kita promotes rediscovering of places around us for a more meaningful learning experience about nature and culture.

What we do

Environmental education

Our niche area is water-related education, but we also love to learn, experiment and share more about other topics related to biodiversity, waste management and others.

Citizen science

We design place-based citizen science approaches and organise programs which allows community to contribute in scientific work while understanding environmental problems that matter in each place.

Interpretation & communication

We develop toolkits, guide books, interpretive signage, posters and others to make learning about the environment around us easy, relevant, fun and purposeful.

Research & innovation

We are interested in action-oriented research grounded in particular places and participatory to help build knowledge on what we’ve learned and solve real-world problems.

Featured projects

City Nature Challenge 2022: Klang Valley

Citizen science project on urban biodiversity in Klang Valley. You may only be able to observe at your lawn or backyard, but it is the wildlife in your city! Start documenting right away.

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Place-Based Citizen Science for Water Conservation

This citizen science initiative applies the place-based approach for river watershed conservation through the application of the Eco-Heart Index. It involves activities where citizen volunteers work with researchers to collect and analyse scientific data to solve questions that are relevant to the sustainability aspiration of a particular area.

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Di Sekitar Kita

Di Sekitar Kita: Urban Biodiversity Challenge was implemented by Sekitar Kita through the support of UNDP Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam. This project aims to identify and map habitats and biodiversity that we can find in Malaysian cities, especially those that may be “under the radar”, as well as unpacking preliminary insights into the norms, values, attitudes and perceptions of various stakeholders towards urban biodiversity.

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Featured articles

Longkang Month

Dirty? Kotor? Lots of trash? Banyak sampah? Let's 'Marie Kondo' our longkang Longkang always flow to somewhere; stream, river & sea Let's guess. a) Kari kepala ikan b) Tomyam ayam c) Gulai lemak cili api d) Sambal udang e) Kuah campur Longkang korang ada apa? What...

Chapter 4: Petaling Jaya-Ecologies of Hutan/Taman

This chapter continues to follow these Transmission Towers south and westwards. It takes us along the edges of Bukit Gasing, past Tasik Taman Jaya, and across Sungai Penchala. Following these power lines inform us of the powers that de-line-ates the boundaries of...

Chapter 3: Downtown-Ecologies of Concrete Jungles

This chapter centres around (un)control(ability). Power lines move underground as we move into the city, and become harder to trace. If the previous essays touch on visible interventions to manage and control Humans and Nature, this chapter reads non-intervention (or...

Chapter 2: Bangsar-Ecologies of Emptiness

We move Southwards to the wealthy suburb of Bangsar. Property prices skyrocket, yet vacant lands abound. Economic theory predicts that in an efficient economy, Price increases with diminishing Supply or increasing Demand. If there is still supply of undeveloped lands,...

Chapter 1: Kiara Hill-Ecologies of Intertidal Zones

We begin at the development frontier of Mont Kiara and Segambut. I use the example of the “Last Green Lung” in Bukit Kiara to make the opening argument of this collection: there is no such thing as Pristine Nature in urban-biodiversity. The assumption of Pristine...

How to become a better iNaturalist Bioblitzer

1. Make observations at different times Many animals are nocturnal. One difference between average users and more advanced users during this bioblitz was their difference in timing. While average users took more observations in the daytime, advanced users collected...

Longkang: Apa tu?

“Jangan main dekat longkang!” “Jangan lompat longkang tu. Besar tu!” “Longkang tu dalam. Jatuh kang!” Lalu membuatkan langkah kita terbantut seketika. Itulah pekikkan yang sering kita dengar semasa kecil tak kisahlah sama ada ibubapa kita, cikgu kita, pakcik dan...

Lorong Belakang Rumah

This particular lorong belakang rumah (or back alley) is a unique urban habitat on its own. Despite its appearance as a concrete walkway for walking or exercising, it is also lined with grass on both sides, and you get to see the various kinds of plants that grows...