‘Careful governing of mangrove corridors needed to save ecosystem’

The nursery for mangrove saplings at the Tanjung Piai National Park. - Filepic

MANGROVE forests are shrinking not only in Malaysia but globally due to unhealthy human activities and unsustainable forest practices.

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying director of landscape architecture Associate Professor Dr Sapura Mohamed said mangroves were mostly found along the west coast of peninsular Malaysia, notably in Johor, Selangor, Kedah and Perak.