THE Sabah HoB, represented around 60 per cent of Malaysia’s Heart of Borneo landscape and holds one of the world’s remaining bastions of treasured biodiversity.
“Indeed, our forests are Sabah’s most valuable assets. Besides providing habitats for the flora and fauna, it also offers water catchment protection, preventing soil erosion and mitigating climate change,” he said.
Some 64 per cent of Sabah’s landmass have been protected forest since 1990, of which 52 per cent were gazetted as Forest Reserves, State Parks, Wildlife Sanctuary and also Wildlife Conservation Areas.
