{"id":855,"date":"2006-08-06T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-06T08:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=855"},"modified":"2006-10-09T23:01:57","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T15:01:57","slug":"853-of-sustainable-forestry-comes-to-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=855","title":{"rendered":"[853] Of sustainable forestry comes to Malaysia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian government is partaking a project that will promote environmental and economic sustainability <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/environment\">(tag)<\/a>. With delight, more at <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2006\/8\/6\/nation\/15065795&#038;sec=nation\">The Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MIRI: Six states have been identified for a RM200mil project to turn logged areas into forests again.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The plantations are expected to generate some RM2bil in timber revenue for the Government.<\/p>\n<p>The project, to start by the end of the year, will greatly help to conserve the nation&#8217;s primary forests by limiting the need to log in new areas.<\/p>\n<p>The states are Sarawak, Sabah, Pahang, Selangor, Terengganu and Kelantan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is probably the first time such project has seen a nationwide effort. Earlier in 2000, Staedtler and two other government agencies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staedtler.com\/forest_management_project_gb.Staedtler?ActiveID=3041\">experimented similar initiative in Pahang<\/a>. From the look of it, it seems that the result was positive.<\/p>\n<p>The concept is not new. In fact, in Europe, there exist &#8220;tree farms&#8221; and these farms are sometimes maintained by the pulp and paper industry. If I&#8217;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&#8217;m unable to provide a source to prove it.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, hurrah for the government. It&#8217;s nice to know that at least there&#8217;s something good going on at some front. Again, thumbs up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}