Sabah Parks and Japan's Kyoto University sign MoU

Kota Kinabalu: A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between Sabah Parks and Japan's Kyoto University here Monday.According to Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun, the inaugural MoU is to formalise the link between Sabah Parks and Kyoto University and also the link between Sabah Parks personnel and Prof. Dr. Kanehiro Kitayama a long time Mt Kinabalu researcher in the State since 1983.

"Today's MoU is the first to be signed and many more are already in the pipeline in the coming months. I see this as a strategic move because nobody can be an expert in all fields," he said.

He said this in his speech read out by the Ministry's Permanent Secretary Ginun Yangus at the signing ceremony between the Parks' Board of Trustees and the university's Graduate School of Agriculture at Le Meridien Hotel.

Accroding to Masidi, the MoU will cover academic collaboration and strengthen the existing collaboration and expand it to create activities and programmes such as exchange of scientific materials, publication and information, to conduct joint research, to conduct joint research seminars and environmental awareness programmes on the conservation and sustainable management of tropical natural ecosystems including tropical rain forests, to conduct training programmes that enable Sabah Parks staff to develop research skills and facilitate technology transfer and other areas of cooperation to be jointly arranged by both parties.

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"In short the MoU is signed today to mark the commitment to work harder and closer together. I would like to assure Kyoto University that my Ministry will not only support but will continue to monitor and ensure the successful and fruitful implementation of the spirit of this MoU."

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He said that in conjunction with the signing event four research papers on studies carried out to quantify and map the carbon density of successional plant communities after shifting cultivation, mapping vegetation and analysing mammal fauna in the ecological linkage area in the 'Ecolinc Project', an area of ecological linkages between Crocker Range Park and Kinabalu Park will also be presented.

Also present was Sabah Parks Director Jamili Nais, and Sabah Parks Board of Trustees Chairman Tengku Datuk Zainal Adlin and Kyoto University representative Prof. Dr Kanehiro Kitayama.

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