People don't just dump rubbish on Pulau Gazumbo, a tiny island just off the Penang Bridge, but dogs as well.
Twelve dogs have been found to be abandoned on the island to fend for themselves during a cleanup programme by the Penang Island City council which says efforts are now underway to rescue the strays.
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Twelve dogs have been found to be abandoned on the island to fend for themselves during a cleanup programme by the Penang Island City council which says efforts are now underway to rescue the strays.
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00:00A team of over 100 volunteers and nature lovers visited Pulau Gazumbo, located next to the
00:08Penang Bridge, for a massive clean-up on Sunday.
00:11They discovered that not only the island was strewn with rubbish, but there were also 12
00:16dogs in need of rescue.
00:22The organizers of the clean-up program said they had made plans to save the dogs that
00:26are being left to fend for themselves on the island.
00:56The dogs could have been abandoned on the island after fish farmers stopped operating
01:00their aquaculture projects.
01:02The island was formed from sand build-up when the Penang Bridge was built from 1983 to 1986.
01:10Over the years, the island has become an eyesore with garbage washed ashore.
01:15During the clean-up, the volunteers collected some 1.22 metric ton of rubbish.
01:23Penang City Mayor Datuk A Rajendran said the record collection is a disappointment
01:28as the public continue to throw rubbish into the sea.
01:32He said most of the rubbish collection consisted of plastic bottles apart from discarded fishermen's
01:38nets that entangled and killed marine life.