A decade before a single brick is laid: Developer’s bold plan for Sabah’s Mengalum Island

A decade before a single brick is laid: Developer’s bold plan for Sabah’s Mengalum Island

KOTA KINABALU, July 24 — A Taiwanese developer says it will spend the next decade restoring coral reefs, protecting turtle nesting beaches and reforesting Sabah’s Mengalum Island before laying a single brick for what it hopes will become the world’s first net-zero carbon island resort.The decade-long conservation effort forms part of Sinyi Group’s more than RM1 billion investment in two tourism projects in Sabah, in what the company says is a lo…