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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Key developments around the world, however, offer a reminder that the global fight for environmental human rights is waged in ...

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 ...

Kuching, SARAWAK: Forest Department Sarawak and WWF-Malaysia are holding ... This is because different land uses, such as logging concessions, industrial tree and oil palm plantations, hydropower dams ...

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 ...

mainly for the harvesting of timber and forest plantation. Jason Hon, head of WWF-Malaysia’s Sarawak conservation programme, said Sarawak’s forest policy actually came into force in 1919 ...

Clear-cutting Borneo’s rain forest for conversion to oil palm plantations as seen from the air near Marudi, Sarawak, Malaysia He recalls taking a long boat ride up to the town of Kapit where he ...