Malaysian government is partaking a project that will promote environmental and economic sustainability (tag). With delight, more at The Star:
MIRI: Six states have been identified for a RM200mil project to turn logged areas into forests again.
Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui said an initial 250,000ha had been identified to be converted into forest plantations for the purpose.
The plantations are expected to generate some RM2bil in timber revenue for the Government.
The project, to start by the end of the year, will greatly help to conserve the nation’s primary forests by limiting the need to log in new areas.
The states are Sarawak, Sabah, Pahang, Selangor, Terengganu and Kelantan.
This is probably the first time such project has seen a nationwide effort. Earlier in 2000, Staedtler and two other government agencies experimented similar initiative in Pahang. From the look of it, it seems that the result was positive.
The concept is not new. In fact, in Europe, there exist “tree farms” and these farms are sometimes maintained by the pulp and paper industry. If I’m not mistaken, Staedtler itself has tree farms for its pencil production in Europe. I remember reading that a long time ago. Unfortunately however, I’m unable to provide a source to prove it.
Regardless, hurrah for the government. It’s nice to know that at least there’s something good going on at some front. Again, thumbs up.
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It’s about time really.
But better late than never.
As a former forester, it’s realy sad to see the state of forest management in this country. I fully support this new initiative and hope it succeeds. Check out my old post on this topic here.