Tradeoff: Sabah banks on palm oil to boost forest protection

Mongabay
By Rhett ButlerDec 4, 2014, 11:56 pm47 pts
Last month Sabah set aside an additional 203,000 hectares of protected forest reserves, boosting the Malaysian state's extent of protected areas to 21 percent of its land mass. But instead of accolades, Sabah forestry leaders were criticized for how they went about securing those reserves: allowing thousands of…

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