Earlier in March, RimbaWatch – formerly known as the Rimba Disclosure Project – released a study which revealed that Malaysia is set to lose 2.3 million hectares of forest, reducing forest cover in the country to 47.4%.
The “State of the Malaysian rainforest 2023” report further put that into perspective by explaining that the area earmarked for deforestation would be roughly 100 times the size of Kuala Lumpur and larger than Perak, Penang and Malacca combined.
The top driver of this loss was said to be fuelled not only by timber plantations – the ‘forest plantation’ programme in the peninsula, the licenses for planted ‘forests’ in Sarawak and industrial timber plantations in Sabah – but also by regulatory, social and environmental issues.
BFM speaks to Adam Farhan, the co-founder and director of RimbaWatch, about the findings of the study.
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