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TOKYO, March 29 After the world missed almost all of its targets to protect fast-dwindling nature for the last decade, observers following a new round of negotiations are focusing as much on how goals will be put in place as the headline targets. Nearly 200 nations are taking part in talks.
A LUSH mangrove forest digs its heels literally in the backyard of Kota Kinabalu city, thanks to the city folk’s commitment to conservation and the wetland birds that inspired it.
According to a KK Wetland representative, it is the second urban Ramsar site in the world after Yatsu Higata in Tokyo, Japan.
Urban Ramsar site, by definition, is a site that is within 7km-10km radius of the city centre.
Sheltered well away from the hustle and bustle of the city, the sanctuary is all that remains of Kota Kinabalu’s once extensive mangrove forests that fringed the intertidal mudflats and coastlines