diversity, including the wildlife and ecosystem. Based on a study and recommendation from the WWW (formerly known as World Wildlife Fund), the Sabah state government had placed the whole of Ulu Segama and Malua forest reserves covering 240,00 hectares under SFM for the conservation of orang utan. Due to the richness of biodiversity and wildlife of this area, it is also included as part of the broader Heart of Borneo (HoB) conservation initiative. With regard to forestry and climate change, he said the Sabah Foundation, one of the agencies of the state government, had entered into a 25-year collaborative programme with the FACE Foundation to offset carbon emission through enrichment planting and rehabilitation. In the first phase of 1992 to 2012, some 360,000 tonnes of carbon are targeted to be sequestrated from less than 10,000 hectares rehabilitated within the Ulu Segama forest reserve, according to a report of Bernama, the national news agency of Malaysia. --MORE
