Kinabatangan floodplain has undergone sustantial change to its land cover.
KOTA KINABALU: Conservationists plan to map areas along Sabah’s longest river, Kinabatangan, that have lost stretches of its riparian reserves to encroaching plantations.
Danau Girang Field Centre director Dr Benoit Goossens said that they were planning to map the stretches of the Kinabatangan that had no riparian forest left and send this information to the Sabah Drainage and Irrigation Department, Land and Survey Department, Agriculture and Environmental Protection Departments for action to be taken.
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