KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will push to make five million hectares of forests as permanent reserves by 2020, says Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar.
He said the ministry’s 2017 plan to preserve the country’s green areas was to ensure at least half of the country was covered in forest land.
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