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5. REINTRODUCING LOCAL SPECIES

• The scientific studies by the Tasik Chini Research Centre in

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia clearly show several

indicators of a more polluted freshwater lake. Flora and

fauna increasingly extinct and tourist arrival to Tasik Chini

also declining. So, the solution that can done is reintroducing

local species to attract the tourist back.

• Reintroducing local species that have been lost from parts of

our countryside can help to restore and reinvigorate Tasik

Chini’s biodiversity.

• Reintroducing is one type of ‘conservation translocation’.

Conservation translocations in Tasik Chini should involved

species such as Putitor mahseer (ikan kelah), Channa

micropeltes (ikan toman), Nelumbo nucifera (lotus),

Aponogeton undulates (green bulb plant) and others.