Forest plantation strategies are the important components providing timber for downstream industrial manufacturing. This strategy has been quickly expanded in response to demands of the local market and government and has had noteworthy impacts on rural economy and livelihoods in Malaysia. Here, we ...

This paper describes the project funded by the Asia-Pacific Network for Sustainable Forest Management and Rehabilitation (APFNet) and supervised by ITTO with the aim of promoting sustainable forest management in the Sungai Medihit watershed to enable the betterment of living conditions for...

The theory of planned behaviour is a useful tool to establish the link between the traditional forest management practice of tagal hutan with the global regime of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, and the role of conservation, sustainable...

The urban forest acts as excellent storage for carbon dioxide (CO₂). Quantifying the above-ground biomass can be vital in understanding the role of urban forest in mitigating excessive carbon dioxide in the urban environment. This study aimed to quantify and compare the above-ground biomass changes ...

Implementing Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) policy has contributed to conserving and protecting the forests to remain relevant for future generations. This study determines stakeholders' viewpoint on the relationship between the implementation of SFM and food security in Sabah. The study was...

A study was conducted in four villages in Mukim Kopisanangan (not a real name), Tongod District, Sabah, Malaysia, to investigate how the community was involved in social forestry (SF) and to what degree sustainable forest management (SFM) was implemented by the Sabah Forestry Department integrated...

Plantation-grown, high-value timber species producing high-value end products are key to optimizing land utilization in Sabah and Sarawak states in Borneo, Malaysia, while meeting the demand for downstream processing. Eucalyptus pellita is one such species suitable for the tropical climatic...

Tropical forest reserves have conservation value for terrestrial mammals and are threatened by anthropogenic pressures, especially conversion to other land-use types. To assess mammalian biodiversity of forest reserves in Sabah, Borneo, we used camera trapping data to estimate species richness,...

The benefits of recreational forests are not only for tourists, but also for households and residents living in the surroundings of the forests. Such benefits include supporting services, provisioning services, regulating services, and cultural services. Very limited studies have determined the...

Acquiring tree-stump information is important to support post-harvest site assessment. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used as a tool for analyzing selective logging impacts in forest area sites. One of the potential use of UAV imagery data for analyzing the impact of selective...