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KOTA KINABALU: Forestry officers and other enforcement officials are working together to identify the extent of illegal gold mining activities in Sabah.
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Published on: Friday, May 28, 2021
By: Bernama
To date, about 26 per cent of Sabah-produced palm oil is RSPO-certified.
Kota Kinabalu: Growing up during the late 1980s, this writer used to visit his grandfather’s small oil palm estate in Batu Pahat, Johor, where his favourite activities were catching ikan puyu or the climbing perch fish and trapping burung wak-wak or white-breasted waterhen.
His grandfather Mohtar Haron, who is now 86, was well aware of the importance of sustainable palm oil production as he used to tell this writer that fauna such as climbing perch and white-breasted waterhen would have disappeared from there if he had used excessive chemical products to take care of his oil palm trees.