KOTA KINABALU: State-owned Yayasan Sabah is ceasing all conventional logging operations near the Maliau Basin by year’s end, said Forestry Department director Datuk Sam Mannan.
He said the closure of the designated logging areas would pave the way the for the implementation of reduced-impact logging in the affected commercial forest reserves such as Sungai Pinangah, Sapulut, Kalabakan and Gunung Rara from 2010.
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