ONLY 4.3% of the country’s waters have been gazetted as marine protected areas (MPA), says state agriculture, agro-based and rural development committee chairman Datuk Samsolbari Jamali.
He said as a member of the United Nations and under the Convention on Biological Diversity, Malaysia must gazette at least 10% of its national waters as MPAs.
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