KUCHING: Jaya Tiasa Holdings Bhd’s efforts to revive its downstream timber processing activities will hinge on the supply of logs from its planted forest.
04/27/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/28/2021 15:12
Speakers Discuss Ways States Can Confront Large-Scale Land Clearing, Boost Cooperation among Stakeholders, as Forum on Forests Continues Session
The Forum on Forests focused on ways to better implement the United Nations strategic plan for forests and its six global forest goals, particularly in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals and the upcoming fifteenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the second day of its sixteenth session today.
During two panel discussions, conducted via video-teleconference, participants from around the world spelled out the ways in which their respective countries are confronting large-scale deforestation. They also proposed ways to boost cooperation with the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, regional and subregional groups, the private sector and other relevant stakeholders. Several speakers appealed for more funding to suppo
Big industry: A timber company’s harvest in Sarawak. The state embarked on the planted forest programme in 1997 to ensure sustainable supply of raw materials for the downstream timber-processing industries and to reduce pressure on the natural forest.
KUCHING: Timber companies holding licences for planted forests (LPFs) are no longer permitted to carry out any new oil palm planting in the licensed areas with immediate effect.
The LPF holders failing to complete the new tree planting plan by 2025 may have the unplanted areas taken back by the state authorities for re-issuance of new LPFs to potential investors.
These new rulings are part of the “Revised policy direction on industrial forest plantation in Sarawak” from the state Urban Development and Natural Resources Ministry. Details of the revised policy are published in the latest issue of Perkasa, a quarterly newsletter of the Sarawak Timber Industry Development Corp (STIDC).