RM6m for Sabah's Heart of Borneo biodiversity conservation initiative | Daily Express Online

Published on: Thursday, December 17, 2020
By: Bernama
Photo: AFP
Kota Kinabalu:  The Sabah Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Environment is to  receive an allocation of RM6 million under the 12th Malaysia Plan (12MP) to continue with the declaration of  the Heart of Borneo (HoB), a biodiversity conservation initiative, said its Minister Datuk Jafry Ariffin.
He said the allocation is very important for sustainable forest management and efforts to preserve biodiversity through the state forest network where 4.2 million hectares of HoB forest area is located in Sabah out of a total of 6.8 million hectares of HoB forest area nationwide.
"The government is committed to increasing fully protected areas to 30 per cent or at least 2.1 million hectares by 2025 as well as restoring destroyed forests through forest restoration programmes," he said in a statement today.

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