GEORGE TOWN: The government has been urged to come up with plans to protect a mangrove swamp in Batu Maung that has withstood the test of time and is now seen as a scientific treasure.
Despite being surrounded by factories and facing urban pollution, the mangrove swamp has beaten the odds and turned itself into a gene bank of 12 species of mangrove trees.
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