Environmental Value: Conserving Biodiversity
The Group recognizes the importance of biodiversity conservation and strictly adheres to all relevant laws in order to protect, conserve and rehabilitate the environment by adopting beneficial practices and incorporating the protection of HCV, HCS and peat areas in new developments.
Currently we are managing a total of 3,600 hectares of HCV areas within our concessions in Murum, Bintulu, Sarawak which contributes towards safeguarding and enhancing the importance of biodiversity areas.
We also strive to conserve and rehabilitate biodiversity and ecology within and in the vicinity of our estates with these following agricultural practices:-
• Planting of cover crops as one of the soil conservation measures in order to prevent soil run-off into waterways and avoiding any planting on steep terrains;
• Conserving water channels, streams, ponds and undisturbed natural riparian buffer zones/reserve in tandem with the overall flood mitigation plan; and
• Linking riparian buffer zones and other reserve areas within the estates and surrounding neighborhoods to develop wildlife corridors;