KULIM: Logging activities along Sungai Matang will cause the riverbed to become shallow and increase the risk of floods, said the Malaysian Nature Society.
Its Penang branch adviser D. Kanda Kumar said if the trees on the hills were cleared, rain water would bring soil into the riverbed and make it shallower.
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