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Chief Minister Musa Aman said that Sabah has achieved remarkable success in protecting its forests and biodiversity through the implementation of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM)
The SFM's approach that prioritised knowledge, vision, enabling conditions and finance was in line with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) strategy on forests to realize contributions by forests to a green economy.
Some of the success examples are the Deramakot Forest Reserve which has been certified as a well-managed forest under the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification scheme. Sabah was able to expand sustainable forest management for statewide application in 1997, and created job and revenue while preserving our forests and biodiversities at the same time.
The Ulu Segama-Malua project which covers some 240,000 hectares of production forest reserves for natural forest management and Orang Utan conservation is another example. Not only so, Sabah is also involved in the Malua Bio-bank, a pioneering public-private partnership on innovative conservation finance.
These initiatives were the proof that the Sabah government was achieving pay-offs form its green management programmes and signifies the viability of a green economy. It shows that Sabah is committed to the trans-boundary initiatives.
We hope to see more success in the journey towards a greener Sabah.
