Agricultural run-off chokes Kinabatangan-Segama area


Gauging the damage: Researchers checking the quality of water from one of the rivers within the wetlands.

KOTA KINABALU: A year-long water quality study carried out on the country’s largest and most biologically diverse wetlands located in Sabah shows that pollution is killing marine life.

The study conducted on Sg Melangking and Sg Kerapu in the Lower Kinabatangan-Segama Wet­lands found water samples with abnormally low dissolved oxygen and high ammonia levels, a combination lethal to aquatic life.

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