According to data from Earthsight and other organization analyzed by Global Forest Watch, concession boundaries for oil palm and other kinds of tree plantations covered 32.7 percent of Sarawak’s ...

Sarawak has reset the deadline to achieve the Industrial Forest Plantation (IFP) target to 2025 due to the slow planting progress, said Chief Minister Abang Johari Openg. He hoped all licence ...

KUCHING: Sarawak aims to establish one million hectares of forest plantations by 2025 to provide a new source of timber for the state's wood-based industries. Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang ...

Google Earth reveals stark contrast between Sarawak’s damaged forests and those in neighboring ... are being rapidly destroyed for oil palm plantations, according to new studies by environmental ...

Sarawak already has a patchwork of functioning and failed plantations, but none of these could be mistaken for forests. There are no fruiting trees for the small mammals to eat, and therefore no small ...

By Kristine Sabillo A new Human Rights Watch report alleges abuse and human rights violations in an Indigenous community in ...

The large-scale development of forest plantation projects in Malaysia, which has fallen short of target, has received a shot in the arm with new tax incentives. Sarawak Timber Association’s (STA) tax ...

“The establishment of forest plantations is not defined as deforestation ... state agency to dismiss the study. Yesterday, the Sarawak forest department rejected the group’s projection of ...

Were the Sarawak Forest Department to evict the community ... it and compensation paid before the land could be used. Tree plantations – the leading driver of deforestation in Sarawak ...

timber production in Sarawak began to decline. Subsequently, by the mid-1990s, monoculture plantation permits began to be issued over such logged over forests, including those within production ...

Imprint of monoculture: Oil palm plantations in Sarawak have decimated rain forests and the native plants and animals within them. Oil palm, Straumann says, is the biggest threat to rain forests ...

New satellite imagery shows Malaysia is destroying forests on the island state of Sarawak, Borneo ... of the land is being converted to palm oil plantations Credit: AFP/GETTY IMAGES In the ...