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155,000 hectares of forest annual allowable cut for Sarawak, Malaysia
May 22, 2011
The National Land Council has set 155,000 hectares of forest allowed to be cut annually under the Tenth Malaysia Plan (10MP) compared to 170,000 hectares in the previous Plan period.
Uggah said that up to 2008, Sarawak had six million hectares of forest reserve out of 14.43 million hectares in the whole country; with logging activities concentrated only in the production forests while logging in the protected forests was not allowed.
Sarawak has a forest area of 8.23 million hectares or 66.9 per cent of the state’s land area compared to 4.4 million hectares (56.7 per cent) in Sabah and 5.85 million hectares (44.7 per cent) in the peninsula.
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Keywords: Asia, deforestation, logging, Malaysia, Sarawak