Bio-diversity

The project envisions enhancing the biodiversity of the flora and faunal species of the Kinabatangan floodplains of Sabah by undertaking reforestation activities, towards the creation of forest connectivity corridors, by the local communities. Tree seedlings will be collected, cultivated and planted in selected areas, to facilitate and establish linkages and connectivity corridors between fragmented forests, thereby increasing tree cover and wildlife habitats. Such forestry connectivity corridors would also enable the wildlife species found in the Kinabatangan floodplains to move more easily and uninterruptedly along the lower Kinabatangan River. For improving the involvement of the local community, who formed a group called Komuniti Anak Pokok Kinabatangan (KAPOK), training and skills development would be provided to build their capacity especially in constructing and maintaining the nursery, as well as in ensuring adequate supplies of seedlings by them collecting and cultivating the seedlings, and subsequently by them replanting the mature seedlings of native trees for purposes of reforestation in the Kinabatangan floodplains, thereby not only enriching biodiversity and increasing forest connectivity corridors, but also in promoting additional and alternative income generation for the sustainable livelihood of the local community.

Malaysia