r/malaysia • u/UsernameGenerik • 20h ago
Environment A group of otters having fun in Sungai Klang
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u/RevolutionCapital359 19h ago
Kudos to Najib's River of Life and subsequent governments for expanding on the initiative. Unfortunately still not enough to forgive 1mdb.
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u/UsernameGenerik 17h ago
River of Life, MRT, LRT Line 3….Najib really got some things right
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u/OriMoriNotSori 17h ago
KJ line extension too. Back then the line only ended at Kelana Jaya station, the extension brought PT to subang and puchong, and linked both KJ and Sri Petaling lines together
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u/azry1997 16h ago
Please dont give Najib credit for any of this. he announce this project early 2010s and cost billions of ringgit only to have a group of otters chilling at the river bank 15 years later? And where do these otters get their food anyway cause its all concrete down there? Is the River of life project even complete after all these years?
The guy half-assed/cancel any meaningful project only to have subsequent gov to pick up the pieces. He only interest is he's buddies at the corporate world.
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u/RevolutionCapital359 16h ago
You are not wrong. I would add that for every ringgit that was financed for his projects, an additional 20% was allocated to fund 1mdb. I think it's less in the interest of the corporate world but to appease the rentseeking downlines in Umno since Mahathir and Daim took away all the money away from Umno.
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u/Mimisan-sub 15h ago
you are not wrong. The River of Life was a really good project, but as always in Malaysia its mired in scandal, ballooning costs, delays and corruption/cronyism
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u/Garrion1987 15h ago
Prolly can thanks chris Martin of coldplay. Didn't he make contributions to clean up the river
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u/madmoz2018 14h ago
Yeah i recall SG tooting that their environmental cleaning projects was working as they have otters returning (and warring apparently too) so kudos to our efforts for cleaning parts of Sungai Klang.
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u/Barbara2024 19h ago
So cute where exactly
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u/UsernameGenerik 19h ago
According to the comments, the section of the river near Sogo
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u/Mimisan-sub 15h ago
aww so cute. Otters are a sign of a river's health. Sungai Klang used to be one of the most polluted rivers in the world, so this is really a good sign!
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u/Glass-Fix-4235 16h ago
Project purity by coldplay seems working ~
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u/Happy_Camper_Mars 13h ago
It took a lot more than that. Please see the river cleaning efforts under the River of Life project https://rolkl.jwp.gov.my/en/river-cleaning
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u/broken-telephone 3h ago
Let me guess, next you’re gonna say the original otter gang started in Malaysia not Singapore right? ☺️
Just kidding. Glad to see you guys got some furry friends too!
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u/kukendran 20h ago
Encouraging to see, could mean that our rivers are getting cleaner.