Last Updated on 3rd April 2014 Thursday 9:49PM

RiLeaf Project
 

Project is sponsored by WWF and financed by Nestle.

Nestle (Malaysia) Bhd will plant forest seedlings up to 150 kilometres on both sides of the Kinabatangan river under a reforestation project that will create a landscape where people, nature and agriculture co-exist harmoniously in their need for water.

"The whole thing about Project RiLeaf is to bring relief to the Kinabatangan River from heavy sedimentation, chemical fertilisers, degraded and broken riparian forests," Yong told Malaysian journalists on a site visit early last week.

Project RiLeaf is brand new. And very refreshing too, because it is multi-purpose.

For decades, WWF-Malaysia has been active in Lower Kinabatangan with Partners for Wetlands.

When they called it a day in 2010, it left behind a brilliant Vision or KCOL aimed at reconnecting fragmented forests and very good infrastructure.

In 2011, Nestle International, the biggest food company in the world, picked up from where WWF had left, and appointed veteran commercial scale planter and agronomist Yong Lee Keng, Manager, Agricultural Services, Nestle Manufacturing (M) Sdn Bhd, to initiate and oversee Project RiLeaf.

Appointing hands-on veterans to ensure success The entire KCOL covers some 32,000 hectares of riparian reserves, said Kertijah Abdul Kadir, Project RiLeaf co-ordinator who is based in Sukau with an office and Information Centre at the Sukau Greenview Bed & Breakfast lodge.

But to get the mission started and established, Project RiLeaf targets just 2,400 hectares with an eye for success, for exemplary purposes, then get as many acts together as possible to upscale the greening and replanting.

http://rileaf.blogspot.com/2011/12/nestle-to-plant-seedlings-under.html

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