Zoo rushes to save aquatic plant
Petaling Jaya: News of land marking within the Kota Damansara has sent Zoo Negara staff scrambling to save an endangered aquatic plant. The zoo's assistant curator of Aquarium Tunku Abdul Rahman led a team to collect the Cryptocoryne minima from an undisclosed site in the forest that is part of the Sg. Buloh Forest Reserve believed to be earmarked for a mixed development project. "If we were to wait any longer the plants will be gone. The area where the plants were had been marked and we worry that the threat is just too close. The plants will be distributed to the Forest Research Institute and the Department of Fisheries," said Herman Bernard.
He said the plant in the reserve was only discovered a few months ago. It is only documented in Perak. Bernard said besides the plant that is highly sought by the aquarium trade, other herbaceous and orchid plants were also collected.
The Star
9 April 2007
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