Sustainable logging at vast tracts of Sarawak forests


PETALING JAYA: Some six million hectares of forests in Sarawak - about half the size of the state - will be logged sustainably.

Sarawak Forestry Department director Sapuan Ahmad said the logging area is under the larger seven million hectare zone, reserved as the state’s forests.

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