“1 Tree 1 Student” Program – Empowering Student as the Custodian of the Earth14 Oktober 2022: A total of 500 Aquilaria trees, known as Karas Trees were successfully planted by new students during the closing day of Universiti Utara Malaysia Orientation Week Session 2022/23.

The program “1 Tree 1 Student” aims to improve student awareness and understanding of the environmental and conservational roles of the forest, as well as student's critical role as an environment's custodian in the era of global warming, in particular towards protecting and preserving natural resources that are richly available on campus, in line with 'UUM University in the Green Forest' tagline of the University, and the United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2030.

Aquilaria trees can naturally produce agarwood from the response of the tree to fungi infection, injury, and pest attack. This tree will produce a kind of oil with a distinctive smell to protect the injured parts such as the stems, branches, and roots. The oil will eventually harden and is known as resin.

The collective efforts by the Centre of Testing, Measurement & Appraisal (CeTMA), Department of Development and Maintenance (JPP), Department of Student Affairs – Student Development Division (HEPA B2P), and Malaysia Airlines & Tenaga Nasional Berhad (MalTen) Student Residential Halls have mobilized 250 students to complete this mission.

This program is made possible by full sponsoring of the trees from the Forestry Department Kedah.

*UUM is an active member of Malaysia Sustainable University Campus Network (MYSUN), an Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education project that aims to promote Malaysian university campuses as “living laboratories" for sustainability and energy efficiency.