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Commonwealth NGOs
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 Batu Puteh Community of Lower Kinabatangan
PPM 538 Elopura
Sandakan 90000
Sabah
Malaysia
Email: kopel@tm.net.my
Website: www.mescot.org
Type: NGO
Scope: local
Interest in Forestry: central
Description
The Batu Puteh community has developed a creative solution to the loss of access to traditional resources
resulting from the creation of Sabah's Supu Forest Reserve and Kinabatangan Wildlife
Sanctuary. Since 2000, the NGO they created - MESCOT (Model Ecologically Sustainable Tourism)
- has operated a series of successful ecotourism ventures including a home-stay program, boat
and guide service, and handicraft production scheme. Their efforts have also restored over 50 hectares
of forest in important freshwater swamps.
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