Sabah gets RM6mil for Heart of Borneo initiative


  • Nation
  • Thursday, 17 Dec 2020

KOTA KINABALU: The RM6mil allocation for the Heart of Borneo initiative will be focused on the conservation of forests and proper land use management purposes, says state Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Jafry Arifin.

He said that the allocation by the Federal Government under the 12th Malaysia Plan for the initiatives under the Heart of Borneo (HOB) Declaration covers an area of about 6.8 million hectares, of which about 61% or 4.2 million hectares were within Sabah.

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