Planting shoots of sustainability

Equitable efforts: Loo (left) during the bamboo harvesting training with the Orang Asli community.

PETALING JAYA: SEAD, an organisation dedicated to sustainable development that started as a small initiative, has built a 4,000ha bamboo social forestry asset in collaboration with the Orang Asli communities.

SEAD Industries executive director and founder Lucas Loo said the project, which began years ago, is on track to becoming Malaysia’s first-ever FSC-certified (Forest Stewardship Council) bamboo forestry asset.