medicinal and other potential uses. The focus of the project will be on the Danum Valley, Maliau Basin

PETALING JAYA: Puncak Niaga Holdings Bhd’s indirect subsidiary, Danum Sinar Sdn Bhd( DSSB), has

Geoforest Park, Danum Valley, Wakaf Che Yeh, Taman Tamadun Islam and more.... She said there are also

KOTA KINABALU: Former chief conservator of Sabah Forests Datuk Sam Mannan has been appointed as Yayasan Sabah deputy director. Mannan, who was controversially replaced as forest conservator by the previous Warisan Plus-led state government after the 2018 General Election, reported for duty on Monday( Aug 9) at his office in Yayasan Sabah, the state's largest timber concession holder. Mannan will be assisting Yayasan Sabah director Datuk Ghulam Haidar Khan, who is also the executive chairman of t

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah is being promoted as a preferred destination during a travel market in Dubai, in an effort to penetrate the Middle Eastern market. Sabah Tourism Board( STB) has brought five local travel agents for the 2022 Arabian Travel Market, which runs from Monday( May 9) to Thursday( May 12) at the Dubai World Trade Centre. They also did a Business-to-Business( B2B) engagement with potential partners and buyers on Sunday( May 8), organised by Solidarity Association For Travel and Tours

KOTA KINABALU: Less than 15, 000ha of forest were restored over a span of 30 years in one of the largest restoration projects in South-East Asia, thus raising questions on the ability of the controversial Nature Conservation Agreement( NCA) to deliver its legal minimum target of monetising 50, 000ha within two years. Environmental experts said there were major technical and logistic impediments to carry out restoration work on this scale, with the largest area ever restored in a single year by a

Environmental experts said there were major technical and logistic impediments to restoration on this scale, with the largest area ever restored in a single year by Yayasan Sabah's substantial INFAPRO project only hitting about 2, 000ha.... " It would involve the sourcing and production of over 10 million tree seedlings, extensive site-species matching assessments and road construction to secure access for planting.... " It will also require long-term seedling maintenance in the remote plantin

The forecast of an extreme weather event, for example, can assist in disaster management as an early warning can be issued to the stakeholders concerned.To provide more comprehensive services with regard to forecasting thunderstorms and heavy rainfall, MetMalaysia has 11 weather radar stations nationwide to detect the formation of rain clouds/ thunderstorms. ChallengesMuhammad Helmi, however, admitted that MetMalaysia is facing constraints in relation to detecting formation of rain clouds/ thund