Human activities ruining ecosystem


Kelantan Drainage and Irrigation Department and Forestry Department officers inspecting the logging site in Perias Forest Reserve.

JUST a decade ago, villagers in Kampung Peralong, Gua Musang, had a whale of a time fishing in chest-deep waters at Lubuk Batu Bakoh.

But the fish-breeding haven in the upstream of Sungai Peralong is in shambles now and the locals blame it on unmitigated land-clearing activities.

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