Green Group Wants Shrimp Farms Shut Down in Penang
Shut down the shrimp farms. That’s what the environmentalist group Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) wants Penang’s government to do. The non-profit insists that aquaculture farms in Balik Pulau district endangered local mangrove forests and also threaten the livelihoods of over a thousand fishermen. A decade ago the state’s government signed ownership of the…