Sabah Parks restores reefs


Life finds a way: Coral and marine life thriving around one of many reef balls at Mid Reef off Pulau Manukan in this file picture taken in 2017.

KOTA KINABALU: An initiative by Sabah Parks to restore coral reefs destroyed by Typhoon Greg in 1996 has yielded positive results more than a decade since its implementation.

In 2005, Sabah Parks came up with the idea to plant 200 reef balls weighing 540 tonnes at the Mid Reef area, off Pulau Manukan here.

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