Sabah orders immediate probe into coral reef damaged by barge in Mabul

KOTA KINABALU: An investigation has been ordered into a coral reef damaged by a barge ferrying building materials for a forward base at a popular dive site at Pulau Mabul in Sabah's east coast Semporna.
Sabah Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Jafry Ariffin said that the state's Environmental Protection Department (EPD) has been ordered to carry out the probe though the area did not come under the marine parks protection of Sabah Parks.
“The EPD will look into this thoroughly to establish which of the terms under the mitigation measures ordered for the construction of the forward base were not observed.

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