Trust seeks to preserve Borneo's forests

Takahiro Tsujimoto, Daily Yomiuri
December 14, 2006
A trust established in October to preserve Malaysia's diminishing rain forests is seeking donors to help buy land to create preservation areas for elephants, orangutans and other animals in Sabah State in Borneo.
The Borneo Conservation Trust plans to buy 5,936 hectares of land along the Kinabatangan River and 270 hectares along the Segama River at a cost of about 6 billion yen.
The trust was the brainchild of Toshinori Tsubouchi, a wildlife specialist dispatched by the Japan International Cooperation Agency to Sabah, and is promoted by Saraya Co., an Osaka-based company producing soap made from palm oil made in Sabah.

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