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.
KOTA KINABALU: The RM6mil allocation for the Heart of Borneo initiative will be focused on the conservation of forests and proper land use management purposes, says state Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Jafry Arifin.
He said that the allocation by the Federal Government under the 12th Malaysia Plan for the initiatives under the Heart of Borneo (HOB) Declaration covers an area of about 6.8 million hectares, of which about 61% or 4.2 million hectares were within Sabah.
He said the funding would be used for biodiversity conservation within various forest reserves as well as for protection and management of forests within the state.