The Sabah government is mulling the possibility of nominating Danum Valley in the east coast of Sabah as a World Heritage Site.
State Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment Datuk Masidi Manjun said this reflected the state government's commitment to preserve Danum Valley - regarded as the Lost World of Borneo - given its almost undisturbed tropical rainforest and abundance of biodiversity.
On the progress of the state government's decision to nominate Maliau Basin in the south central part of Sabah as a World Heritage Site, Masidi said a technical committee had been formed to finalise details of that proposal to be forwarded to the Unesco World Heritage Centre for consideration.
The Maliau Basin, known as Sabah's Lost World, was declared a Sabah Foundation conservation area in 1981.In 1997, the state cabinet agreed to gazette the 588sq km site as a Protection Forest Reserve (Class 1).
Sabah currently has a World Heritage Site, namely the Kinabalu Park, where the 4,092-metre Mount Kinabalu is located.
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