Bigger plans afoot for Pulau Kukup

I REFER to the recent developments involving Pulau Kukup, of which the latest is that the federal government stated that it wanted the island to remain as a forest reserve and expressed hope that the Johor government would accept this decision.

Pulau Kukup is situated about one kilometre offshore and is one of the world’s largest uninhabited mangrove islands. Known to be among the very few intact sites of this type left in South-East Asia, it hosts about half of the world’s true mangrove species.