Forest Cover In Sarawak Malaysia
From 2001 to 2019 there was a reduction of about 812 million hectares of forest cover in Malaysia.
Forest cover in sarawak malaysia. Jason Hon head of WWF-Malaysias Sarawak conservation programme said Sarawaks forest policy actually came into force in 1919 more than 100 years ago. However it is said that mangrove cover in Malaysia has declined by 30 per cent over the past five decades from 800000 hectares in the 1950s to 575000 hectares at present. Peat swamp forests constitute a significant component of this cover with an estimated 154 million hectares still remaining.
Malaysia is committed in its effort to maintain the natural forest cover of more than 50 per cent of its total land mass as pledged at the 1992 UN Rio Earth Summit said Primary. More than 70 per cent of these peat swamp forests are in Sarawak less than 20 per cent in Peninsular Malaysia and the remainder in Sabah. The lost of mangrove areas are highest in Perlis Selangor Johor Sarawak Negeri Sembilan and Penang.
The laughable quote from the Sarawak forest department that the state has planted 634 million trees throughout Sarawak spanning an area of 528238 hectares covering hills swamps and coastal area in collaboration with various stakeholders Borneo Post fails to mention that the trees in question are plantation trees foreign imports like the fast-growing but highly damaging acacia. Despite such widespread forest cover Malaysias forests have been devastated by unchecked logging activities. Sources vary as to Sarawaks remaining forest cover.
Malaysias land surface was once almost entirely covered with forest. In Sarawak the situation in 2009 was even bleaker. Forests cover 65 of Sabah 62 of Sarawak and 44 of Peninsular Malaysia.
Sarawak is the second to Peninsular Malaysia in terms of landmass covering 124 million hectares and is located on the island of Borneo. However deforestation is a major concern as the country is still rapidly developing. Timber is the primary forest product in Malaysia although NTFPs such as rattan bamboo firewood charcoal damar palm wood-oil gumsresins and medicinal plants are also harvested.
Reportedly over 80 of Sarawaks forests and over 60 of Peninsular Malaysias forests have been cleared. Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg said the Sarawak. Imbak Canyon Conservation Area for example gained a wider protection forest buffer in November 2014 when 19510 ha of adjacent logged forests were reclassified as protection forests.
The results indicate that 85 percent of Sarawaks intact forest. WWF-Malaysia also advocates for wider buffers for existing protected areas and restoration of natural forest cover to such buffer areas he added. Only 3 percent of land cover consisted of legally protected intact forest.
Ad Book your Hotel in Sarawak online. Today forests still cover about 54of the total land area. Former chief minister Abdul Taib Mahmud declared that it fell from 70 to 48 between 2011 and 2012 the Sarawak Forest Department and the Ministry of Resource Planning and Environment both held that it remained at 80 in 2012 and Wetlands International reported that it fell by 10 between 2005 and 2010 35 times faster than the rest of.
No less than 38 million hectares or 52 of Sabahs total area have been gazetted as forest reserves parks and. Today most of Malaysias forested areas are found within its national parks. The management of forest land in Sarawak is cover an area of the Permanent Forest Estate Protected Forest Forest Reserve and Communal Forest.
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