Sarawak Natural Forest Certification

Certificate for Forest Management

MALAYSIAN TIMBER CERTIFICATION COUNCIL (MTCC)

With Suling-Sela’an-Linau FMU (forest management unit) certified in 2004, Samling Timber Malaysia became the first private company in Malaysia to obtain forest management certification: this was under the national standard, the Malaysian Timber Certification Scheme (MTCS) established by the Malaysian Timber Certification Council (MTCC) prior to its endorsement by the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) in 2009.

Ravenscourt FMU was certified in June 2018, Ulu Trusan FMU in December 2018, Gerenai FMU in April 2020 and Bah Sama FMU in May 2023 and Tama Abu FMU in April 2024. The Group has several other FMUs under various stages of preparation for certification under MTCS.

The Forest Department of Sarawak has mandated that all long-term forest timber licences (FTL) must be certified under an approved scheme before the end of 2025.

PUBLIC SUMMARIES

There is a public summary for each of the forest management plans for the MTCS certified natural FMUs held under licence by Samling Timber Malaysia.

A public summary may be accessed by clicking the relevant link below:

The key components of the public summary are as follows:

Forest management objectives

To employ sustainable forest management practices that are in compliance with the Malaysian Criteria & Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management (MC&I SFM) of the PEFC endorsed Malaysian Timber Certification Scheme (MTCS).
To reduce the environmental impact of harvesting primarily by using the reduced impact logging system.

Economic objectives

To maximise economic returns through cost efficient forest operations.
To add economic value through the supply of logs for downstream processing into plywood, sawn timber and semi-finished products.

Conservation and protection objectives

To protect the FMUs from encroachment.
Within the FMUs, to protect areas that have been identified as having high conservation value attributes .
To establish and protect a network of river buffer zones.
To maintain, and where possible enhance, the habitats of any rare, threatened and endangered species.

Socio-economic objectives

To provide employment opportunities for local communities.
To support FDS in encouraging communities in the FMUs and LPFs to form Community Representative Committees (CRC) and to establish Joint Consultative Committees (JCC) for our employees. The CRCs and JCCs are mechanisms for conflict management and resolution of grievances and complaints.

MONITORING

The terms of the Natural Resources and Environment Board’s (NREB) Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) certificate requires that Environmental Monitoring Reports (EMR) are prepared by approved 3rd party CBs who will at the same time undertake river water quality monitoring. This is normally done quarterly from a number of predetermined water sampling locations.

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