In a statement on Facebook, Zaliha said that an additional 240 trees were being assessed for risk, in a process expected to conclude by early August.

She said she had chaired a task force committee meeting on high-risk tree management to foster collaboration in research, knowledge, technology, and expertise in urban tree management in Kuala Lumpur.

The task force involves Universiti Putra Malaysia, the Malaysian Society of Arboriculture, the Institute of Landscape Architects Malaysia, the federal territories department, the forestry department of Peninsular Malaysia, the national landscape department, the police and the fire and rescue department.

“The task force will also be expanded to include environmental NGOs,” Zaliha said.

She said the task force would explore the potential for establishing a green area trust fund to encourage public-private partnerships through a whole-of-nation approach to enhance green landscape competence while maintaining the green area percentage in Kuala Lumpur as targeted in the Kuala Lumpur Structure Plan 2040.

“I have also directed the task force to examine the tree replacement plan with a focus on the One Million Trees Planting Programme in Kuala Lumpur, paying attention to factors such as tree species, planting space, root depth, and others,” she said.