‘Gazette mangroves as forest reserve’


GEORGE TOWN: Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) has urged the state government to carry out conservation efforts for the mangrove forest in Penaga, Kepala Batas, and not make empty promises like before.

Its field officer Meor Razak Meor Abdul Rahman said the government had principally agreed to gazette the mangrove forest as one of the state’s permanent forest reserves back in 2007 but nothing has been done since then.

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