Kota Kinabalu: Former State Conservator of Forests Datuk Sam Mannan said the Yayasan Sabah (YS) lands which allegedly have gone “missing” were actually “locked up” under the forest conservation areas such as Tabin, Danum Valley, Imbak Canyon, Nurod-Urod, Maliau Basin, etc.
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He said people get the impression that YS was one massive monster size licensed area (for logging) in the beginning of its genesis, but this is not true, as it was only 3,300 square miles at birth (about 850,000 hectares). “Today, it is (the licensed area that is) only 250,000 hectares. So where is the ‘missing’ 600,000 hectares as alleged by the present State Government?
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