15% of coastline being eroded


KUALA LUMPUR: A study on coastal erosion in Malaysia found that 15.3% of the country’s coastline is experiencing erosion, says Natural Resources and Environ­ment Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar.

The National Coastal Erosion Study (NCES) was carried out in 2015 to examine the issue of coastal erosion as a whole.

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