KOTA KINABALU: WWF-Malaysia celebrated the International Day of Forests by planting fig trees for habitat restoration in critical areas on Sabah's east coast.
Some 940 fig seedlings were planted in Tabin, Lahad Datu, Kinabatangan and Tawau led by WWF-Malaysia's Sabah Landscape Programme in collaboration with other non-governmental organisations.
For the Tabin area, WWF-Malaysia, together with 14 employees of Sawit Kinabalu Group planted 100 trees at the Bagahak Ecological Corridor in Lahad Datu. "It's a step in the right direction towards stopping deforestation and protecting important forest areas," she said in a statement on Wednesday . Bora executive director Datuk Dr John Payne added that as part of a new approach to reforestation, it was focusing on species that provide food for rare animals, rather than the wood species typically planted to revitalise degraded land.
“There are over 80 native fig species in the Bora nursery with different species fruiting at different times through the year, and many can be propagated vegetatively, without having to wait for the fruiting time.
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