Director of forest to issue licences
By Neville Timothy Sanders THE FOREST (Amendment) Bill (2022) seeks to empower the director of forest with approval of the minister to issue licences for forest carbon activities in state land, permanent forests and alienated land that will lead to reductions in the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Deputy Premier Datuk Amar Awang […]
Logging licences still being issued
KUCHING: The Sarawak Forest Department, in line with the state government’s policy, does not issue new long-term licences for logging activities anymore, says director Datuk Hamden Mohammad. However, short-term and annual licences were still being issued, he said, but these were mainly for the development of an area taking into account the duration of the […]
