Published on: Friday, December 18, 2020
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Kota Kinabalu: The State Tourism, Culture and Environment Ministry received an allocation of RM6 million for the implementation of the Heart of Borneo (HoB) Declaration initiative for the 12th Malaysia Plan (12MP).
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Its Minister Datuk Jafry Ariffin
(pic) said the allocation would be used as much as possible in an effort to preserve biodiversity through a network of protected forest areas, forest management and sustainable land use in Sabah.
For the record, he said the total area of Heart of Borneo in Malaysia is 6.8 million hectares of which about 4.2 million hectares (61 per cent) of the Heart of Borneo Initiative area is located in Sabah.