Malaysia launches sustainable management course
18 October 2006A post graduate diploma in applied science (sustainable tropical forestry management) has been launched at the Sarawak Timber Association's headquarters.
The association and New Zealand's Lincoln University are jointly conducting the course to help upgrade logging managers' skills in the implementation of sustainable forest management plans.
An International Tropical Timber Organisation mission to Sarawak in 1989 recommended training for timber industry workers to help achieve sustainable forestry management.
The course was launched by the state's second minister for planning and resource management Awang Tengah Ali Hasan, who said the Sarawak government was committed to sustainable forest management.
Thousands of chainsaw operators and tree fellers have been trained in the past decade. Training of log extraction and loading workers is expected to begin soon.
