Muddy boots, mangroves and keeping nature alive

Under the boardwalk: Volunteers harvesting seedlings to plant in the mangrove forest in Balik Pulau. — LIM BENG TATT/The Star

BALIK PULAU: It might have felt icky at first but once they got used to the mud, they could focus on the task of getting all 6,490 ­mangrove tree seedlings planted before the high tide rolled in.

“My feet were deep inside the mud, so after just a few minutes of plodding through it, I found it tiring.