Nature conservation top priority for Sabah

KOTA KINABALU: Nature conservation remains Sabah’s highest priority and the state is therefore receptive to any initiative that garner well for the environment said Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment, Datuk Masidi Manjun.

“With sustainable forest management in Sabah and the Deramakot Forest Reserve as an exemplary model, I strongly believe that we are heading towards the right direction in nature conservation,” he said.

More than half of the land mass in Sabah is still forested and these areas are extremely rich with flora and fauna, some of which are indigenous to the state.

“Because of such high biodiversity, the state is well-known as nature’s gateway to Borneo,” he said.

However, Masidi stressed that conservation efforts must be pragmatic and realistic in order to benefit all and not threaten the state’s development agenda.

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