Maliau Basin Off Limits for Another 50
Years
Mayor Calls for More Green
Buildings
Kota Kinabalu City Mayor Datuk Abidin Madingkir
Green building is the way
to go for Kota Kinabalu as it
strides forward to become a
developed eco-tourism resort
city, said Mayor Datuk Abidin
Madingkir.
Maliau Basin, photo credit: ww.thesabahsociety.com
The Maliau Basin,
Sabah’s Lost World
that is described as
a “Jurassic Park sans
dinosaurs”, will not be
touched for another 50
years.
This commitment
was renewed under
a 10-year strategic
conservation plan for
the sprawling 20,000ha
area in Tawau, in the
south central part of
Sabah, at a management
plan stakeholders
workshop for the basin
here.
Yayasan Sabah’s
conservation and
environmental
management general
manager Dr Waidi Simun
said the ban would
not be lifted under the
second plan from 2014
to 2023.
“This area will remain
out of bounds to anyone
– including our rangers
– until the expir 䁽