Land users may have to rehabilitate swamp

Nature ravaged: Industrial waste and construction debris being disposed at the mangrove land owned by state Fisheries Department in Batu Maung.

GEORGE TOWN: The state may require those who “raped” a mangrove swamp in Batu Maung to remove the hundreds of tonnes of soil, sand and construction waste used to fill it up.

State Environment Committee chairman Phee Boon Poh said he was waiting for a report on the extent of the damage to the swamp and the state may require the land users to rehabilitate it.