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manage and protect water resources, namely the Management Guidelines for water supply catchment areas of Sarawak and the Strategic Water Resources Management Master Plan.
Environmental Management of SCORE The development of
the Sarawak Corridor
of Renewable Energy (SCORE, see page 340) could potentially have significant impact on environmental quality.
To ensure that SCORE- related developments
will not cause serious environmental degradation, the State has adopted the appropriate international standards, requiring development activities to
Almost 10% of the state’s total land area has been designated as water catchment areas, protecting these pristine rivers and watercourses for future generations.
comply with the Equator Principles and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The State
has imposed stringent measures including the adoption of new
clean technologies and environmental compliance auditing. In the long
term, the State aims to encourage the private sector to self-regulate
in achieving sustainable development.
Sarawak’s hill forests are important reservoirs of biodiversity and are protected from harmful timber extraction methods. Only low-impact harvesting - i.e selective heli-logging - is permitted.