NCA may fail minimum goal, experts warn

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Environmentalists are concerned that Sabah’s disputed Nature Conservation Agreement (NCA) may fail to fulfil its minimum goal of restoring 50,000 hectares of rainforest within the next two years.

Professor David Burslem of the University of Aberdeen and Datuk Dr Glen Reynolds of the South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP) both said that they are unaware of any tropical effort that has regenerated forest at the rate anticipated by the NCA.