Singapore spends RM17.3mil to relocate corals in the way of Tuas port development


A group of volunteers relocating corals near the south-western Sultan Shoal in 2014 to protect them from the impact of the development of Tuas Terminal. Some 2,300 out of 2,800 coral colonies were moved successfully and have survived. - The Straits Times/ANN

SINGAPORE: S$6mil (RM17.3mil) has been spent to relocate more than 2,000 coral colonies which were in the way of a port development in Tuas.

They were moved from Sultan Shoal, south of Tuas, to the waters off St John's and Sisters' islands as land reclamation necessary for the port development could destroy them.

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