Sabah contributes 4.2 million hectares to the total Heart of Borneo (HoB) areas. Some of the forest reserves in the HoB are newly gazetted as Totally Protected Forest.
Conservation planning usually focuses on either protecting where species live or making sure they can move between areas, but not both at the same time.
A new method was created to help protect wildlife, forests, and carbon, while also allowing animals to move around better.
In Sabah, Malaysia, this method helped to increase the protection of places animals use to travel by a lot, while only slightly reducing the protection of carbon trees and butterflies.