KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Environment is planning to expand to 13 per cent the state’s Marine Protected Area (MPAs), equivalent to 2.031 million hectares by 2025.
Its Permanent Secretary Datuk William Baya said to date, the MPAs in Sabah measures only 7.2 per cent of the total area.
“The government is also planning to have two more marine protected areas by 2030, one each in the West Coast and East Coast of Sabah,” he said in his welcoming speech at 8th MPA Regional Exchange & Technical Working Group Meeting here Wednesday night.
William said Tun Mustapha Park in Kudat, which was gazetted in 2016, is the largest marine protected area in Malaysia measuring over 890,000 hectares. – Bernama
