Dr Mahathir: Malaysia can do without logging

Joyous event: Dr Mahathir at the unveiling of FRIM in Kepong as a national heritage.

KEPONG: Authorities should not only look to reducing the illegal felling of trees but logging in general if they want to avoid devastating floods, said former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

He feared the floods would be an annual occurrence if nothing was done to stop deforestation.