Small fireworks: Tengah (centre), Forestry director Sapuan Ahmad (third from right) and others cutting the cake to mark the celebrations in Sibu.
SIBU: The state forestry management policy has been recognised as among the best in the world, seeing that 84% of the total 12.4 million ha landmass are still under lush vegetation.
Second Resource Planning and Environment Minister Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hassan noted that in some European countries, forests only covered 10% of their total land size.
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