By : DATUK SAM MANNAN
AN ALLEGATION has been done which vast scale as great as prevalent bootleg felling of joist has been ongoing in Sabah, a deduction of which, have been purportedly to have purportedly to have been laundered outside a country, as during vast reported by blogs as great as surprisingly thereon by various an general press agency, in imitation as great as online.
A figure of USD $ 90 million has been quoted as a nest egg or close RM300,000,000. lf this claim was loyal it implies which not less which 1 million m3 of joist have been illegally felled. That represents plandering of during slightest 20,000 hectres (50,000 acres) of great stocked forest.
This scale of logging if loyal would represent of 50% of a joist produced from natural timberland in a year 2011 or about 30% of Sabah's joist prolongation in 2010.
The Forestry Department acknowledges which bootleg felling does exist in Sabah though no approach circuitously a scale as great as border as allegedly reported. The allegations have been thus 'baseless as great as done with bad intention's (Mal fide) to disprove as great as relieve a effort as great as sacrifices done by a state government of Sabah, to grasp great timberland governance as great as SFM (Sustainable Forest Management) in a shortest time possible, despite a mercantile monetary as great as amicable challenges.
The fact's to disprove these wild as great as antagonistic allegations have been as follows:
(1) The enormi! ty of a purported border of bootleg felling (1 million m3) could not have transient a courtesy ofthe universe during large. A great stocked timberland of 20,000 hectares badly logged since of bootleg felling would have been easily detected by satellites as great as attract a courtesy of NGOs, environmentalists as great as a communities vital nearby. No approach could have such acts be committed as great as upheld though notice. Unless as great as until a weight of despotic explanation is shown a allegations have been groundless as great as untruths.
(2) lf 50% ofthe annual prolongation oftimber from Sabah was purported to be bootleg universe markets especially supportive ones like Europe, North America as great as Japan, would have prolonged ago stopped shopping joist from Sabah, as great as a huge mercantile as great as monetary implications would have been dire to a state as a whole. This never occurred since a purported vast scale purported bootleg logging never happen.
(3) Sabah's prolonged tenure licences have been subjected to third celebration auditing (independent audit) since 2010, underneath a Ma|aysiaECTLAS) Timber Legality Assurance Programme) a eccentric auditors would have detected such vast scale bootleg felling. On a discordant Sabah has always been pure as great as vouchsafing her timberland physical education instructor be opened to public inspection as great as third celebration auditor in wanting to attain universe approval an credibility.
(4) RIL (Reduced Impact Logging) has been introduced in 2009 with full implementation in 2010, again verified exclusively by third celebration auditors such an claim of prevalent bootleg felling (20,000 ha during least) would have been unfit to escape a courtesy of a auditors who have been great renowned general players.
(5) At slightest 800,000 hectares of Sabah's forests have been to some extent of entirely approved underneat! h variou s internationally famous system (Forest Stewardship Council or FSC, MTCS Malaysian Timber Certihcation Scheme, PEFC Pan European Forest Scheme). This additionally covers a Sabah Foundation with during slightest 250,000 hectares of entirely certined as great as 150,000 hectares to some extent certihed forest.
Many some-more timberland areas have been being earmarkedfor acceptance as Sabah has set 2014 as a year for all prolonged tenure stable areasto be entirely certified. The routine of certihcation means eccentric third celebration upon auditing a belligerent to entrance credibility. If such an claim wastrue, why does Sabah continue to attract a courtesy of certifying bodies as great as NGOs, who want to be our partners as great as to support us in obtaining verihable as great as certifiable great governance?
(6) lt is not lost to a universe which Sabah is a tirst pleasant region in a sum universe to have a tract of rainforest approved underneath a Gold Standard ofthe FSC in 1997. i.e. Dermakot Forest Reserve. This is a indication area notjust for Malaysia though a pleasant world.
(7) Sabah's Ulu Segama-Malua ecoregion bordering Danum Valley, is additionally home to a wor|d's GRASP (Great Apes Succeed Project) indication underneath UNESCO, whereby not less than 3,000 orang utans have been now stable in an FSC approved timberland for which a state government underthe care of Datuk Seri Musa Haji Aman, put a sum halt to logging upon 31.12.2007, afterthe policy proclamation was done upon 15.3.2006. Thisbold decision was done despite a huge hnancial implication detriment of intensity income of during slightest RM4 billion. Why close up valuable rainforests forever ifthe administration was bent upon organizing bootleg felling?
(8) The area of TPAS (Totally stable areas) pot in Sabah is now reaching 1.3 million ha. or about 20% ofSabah's sum land area, even exceeding a IUCNsta! ndard of 10%. The latest addition is about 180,000 ha a 55,000 ha. wildlife corridor joining Maliau Basin, lmbak Canyon to Danum/Ulu Segama as great as a re-classification of Ulu Segama (130,000 ha) to sum stable status. lt must be put upon jot down which a care ofthe stream Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Haji Aman, has seen a greatest border of TPAS expansion in a history of Sabah, despite huge opportunity price of conservation.
(9) Under his leadership, SFM has softened by jump as great as bounds, Short tenure licences which means extensive repairs to a sourroundings have been being drastically phased out as great as Sabah's timberland management credit is during a highest-an open-book philosophy whereby, logging as great as timberland management areas, have been all open to third celebration as great as NGO scrutiny. The good, a bad as great as a nauseous have been laid unclothed with a goal of mending standards as great as practices upon a ground.
(10) The planned dump in timberland income is additionally a deliberate strategy to ensure which a forests have been since a chance to redeem (about RM150 Million/year currently as opposed to RM500 Milion RM1 billion in a forest) as great as a stocks have been rebuilt again in a subsequent twenty years as great as this will good those generations to come. It would have been too easy to repay some-more timberland for income solely as great as to desert charge as great as raising standard in a reduced term. If such a policy was pursued afterwards there will be absolute depletion in a future. This is ordinarily known in mercantile as "The Tragedy Of The Commons".
(11) The Wild as great as groundless claim actually do a lot of harm to a timberland of Sabah not assistance it. A gullible audience would have stopped shopping joist (most valuable resourse financially in a forest) from Sabah, rendering a rainforest as great as a SFM efforts meaningless as great as of no mercantile value. Once rainforest have no some-more mercantile worth as great as a joist therein unsaleable, in a rainforest of continuing socio-economic, development, afterwards they will be in jeopardy by alternative land uses. If SFM as great as charge no longer sell or bring good to society, afterwards there will inevitably be forsaken as policies, despite a swell painfully benefit over a years.
(12) lt is hoped which those who have projected a unfounded allegations realize a enormity of misinforming a universe as great as in a process, they have in effect harm our charge effort as a whole.
(13) We have reason to believe a unfounded allegations have been politically encouraged as great as not driven by any adore for a environment. lt distorts with a ground of derailing Sabah's efforts as great as frustrating a movement of timberland management reform The public should discard a reports as antagonistic as great as damaging to Sabah.
(NOTE : Datuk Sam Mannan, Sabah Forestry Department)
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