Three ASEAN member States – Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei – share the natural resources from Kinabatangan to Sebuku Sembakung, covering some 2.5 million hectares. These include palm oil plantations. These member States have initiated the Heart of Borneo (HOB) Conservation Plan, which was endorsed by ASEAN at the 11th ASEAN Summit, held in Kuala Lumpur on 12 December 2005.
The plan is to protect biodiversity in the HOB, linking five protected areas and six forest reserves (each of the three states owns parts of the area).
The WWF-Indonesia and the International Tropical Wildlife Organization are providing technical assistance at the national level to support the protection and sustainable development of the forest under this plan.
The United States donated US$100,000 for the project (as that country is one of the Dialogue Partners of ASEAN).
The plan would help to keep the Indonesia haze at bay or prevent it from worsening. It was signed by the three countries as the Heart of Borneo Declaration on 12 February 2007.
Though the breakthrough in a total prevention of haze have not yet been succeeded, there is still a reason to believe that there is a silver lining in solving or mitigating the haze problem. Under the ASEAN Vision 2020 of 1997, the member States envision ‘clean and green environment ASEAN... sustainable development to ensure the protection of the region's environment, the sustainability of its natural resources, and the high quality of life of its people.
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