Advancing a Sustainable Global Timber Trade through the EU FLEGT Action Plan

The Sabah’s FLEGT Kick Start Workshop and Consultation was conducted at Kota Kinabalu, Sabah on 8 October 2012.This workshop was jointly organized by the Sabah Forestry Department (SFD) and WWF-Malaysia, with funding from the EC. The neighbouring state of Sarawak sent an official from the government and a representative from the forest industries to observe in the workshop.

The workshop provided an opportunity to bring together participants with a wide range of experience and expertise working in the context of the forestry sector, both the forest operation and its associated trade.The intention of the workshop was to allow local stakeholders in Sabah to deepen their personal understandings of the historical background on how the FLEGT process began in the country, and inform them of an on-going new project in Sabah with collaboration from EU.