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May 4, 2024
WITH the drastically declining resources from natural forests, forest plantations play an increasingly important role as an alternative source of timber to meet the demand for the wood industries and to generate revenue for the State.
June 29, 2023
Kota Kinabalu: Sabah earned some RM181 million in forest revenue last year, 22 per cent more than the original annual target set by the State Forestry Department.
April 28, 2023
KOTA KINABALU: The forestry sector’s development in Sabah, especially forest plantations, should not be viewed as a contributor to deforestation, says Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor.
April 27, 2023
KOTA KINABALU: Forest plantations should not be viewed as a contributor to deforestation, says Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor.
January 8, 2023
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah earned over RM500mil from the export of timber products last year, said Datuk Seri Dr Joachim Gunsalam.
August 9, 2022
KOTA KINABALU: A second symposium on Industrial Tree Plantation (ITP) will be held in Sabah following the success of the first event on July 7.
August 8, 2022
An economic value chain must exist that connects resources to processing, and processing to the market, in order for Industrial Tree Plantations to contribute to the GDP according to the Borneo Forestry Cooperative (BFC)
April 15, 2022
Activists and an opposition lawmaker in the Malaysian state of Pahang have demanded government accountability after reports that just 5% of forest reserves cleared to make way for plantations have actually been replanted. According to an investigation by environmental news site Macaranga, 77,331 hectares (191,089 acres) of Pahang’s forest reserves were cleared between 2012 and […]
March 2, 2022
Forest Plantations in Reserves: Quick To Cut, Slow To Grow. This is Part 2 of our four-part #LadangHutan series. The series investigates forest plantations in Peninsular Malaysia. IN MALAYSIA, forest reserves can be selectively logged. Clear-felling was...
February 23, 2022
Tree Farming Gone Wrong. To view the original story in full, please see Macaranga. This is Part 1 of our four-part #LadangHutan series. IN 2006, Acacia Industries Sdn Bhd planted its first rubber tree in Gua Musang, Kelantan...