KUALA LUMPUR: Worldwide conservation group WWF welcomed a Malaysian state's decision to phase out logging in a large forest that is home to endangered orangutans, Bornean pygmy elephants and Sumatran rhinos.
Under the plan, large-scale timber harvesting in the forests of Sabah state on Borneo Island would end by 2007 and be replaced with sustainable forest management practices.
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