By Olivia Miwil - October 30, 2021 @ 8:42pm
KOTA KINABALU: The report showing that the Kinabalu Park-UNESCO World Heritage Site is releasing forest carbon into the atmosphere does not reflect the actual situation.
Sabah Tourism, Culture and Environment minister Datuk Jafry Ariffin said the finding was based on satellite image map analysis alone without location survey at the site.
He was referring to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) report - 'Human activity and climate change mean forests in 10 UNESCO World Heritage sites were net carbon emitters'.
Based on Sabah Parks and WWF-Malaysia, the monitoring of Tawau Hills Park natural forest using the Global Forest Watch application on July 16 last year, they found indicators of 34 hotspots of canopy openings through the satellite image analysis.
"A field inspection between Aug 5 and 25 2021 to the affected areas found there were two GPS reading lists of fallen trees but they were due to nature because those trees were old.
"It can be concluded that the complaint of falling or logging of timber through the reported source of satellite imagery is inaccurate," he said in a statement.
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