08 Apr 2021 / 11:41 H.
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SANDAKAN: There are more than 100,000 hectares of forest reserves in Sabah categorised as degraded areas that can still be restored by replanting trees to restore its function as a platform for the state’s natural ecosystem.
Sabah Chief Forest Conservator Frederick Kugan said so far, about 60,000 of the more than 100,000 hectares of the degraded forests had been restored with tree replanting.
For this year, he said, the State Forestry Department is targeting to do the same for 5,000 hectares of forest reserves.
“These degraded forests are caused by fire or due to unsustainable activities that resulted in the forest area to no longer be able to recover naturally,“ he told Bernama.