KOTA KINABALU: Sabah’s totally protected land areas will see changes but slightly increased with the passing of the Forestry Bill (Gazetting of Forest Reserve and Amendment) (Amendment) 2023 on the last day of the State Assembly sitting on Thursday (May 25).
Datuk Nizam Titingan, assistant minister to the chief minister read out the Bill and explained that it was aimed at withdrawing the state permanent forest reserve status of a total of 554.43ha of forest and to gazette two new forest reserve areas involving a 1,121 ha.
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