Green Group Wants Shrimp Farms Shut Down in Penang

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…