KOTA KINABALU: Foreigners are making a beeline to Sabah to illegally harvest the valuable agarwood or gaharu from forest reserves here.
Over the past year, Sabah Forest Department officials nabbed several Thai nationals who were found to be illegally harvesting agarwood at the Kalabakan forest reserve near the southwest Sabah district of Tawau.
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