2008-08-16 SAM alarmed over forest plunder in Sarawak. The Star, Malaysia.

SAM is worried by the widespread plundering of Sarawak's forest reserves.
Even protected forests and forest reserves are not spared from land clearing and have to give way to oil palm plantations and pulpwood estates.

SAM says that the Sarawak Forests Department licensed out some 2.8 million hectares of forested land to 40 plantation concessions.

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