BANGKOK: Vast concessions in Malaysia's forests threaten millions of hectares of rich natural habitats and risk the country's commitment to 50 per cent forest cover, a report warned Tuesday (May 28). NGO RimbaWatch said its analysis of concessions in the country's forest showed up to 3.
This picture taken on Jun 30, 2022 shows palm oil trees at a plantation in Ijok, in Malaysia 's Selangor state. BANGKOK: Vast concessions in Malaysia 's forests threaten millions of hectares of rich natural habitats and risk the country's commitment to 50 per cent forest cover, a report warned Tuesday .
"The Malaysian rainforest is millions of years old, and when it is lost, it is lost permanently," he told AFP. RimbaWatch mapped concession grants onto these baselines to determine how much forest was at risk, working on the assumption that all trees in concession areas were threatened. The dataset from The TreeMap's Nusantara Atlas estimates forest cover was already under 47 per cent by 2022.
"The 2.4 million hectares of loss expected for timber plantations will not be reported by the Malaysian government as deforestation," he added.
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