Preparing Sabahans to face the threats to Oil Palm Plantations .... Blessings turning into curses!

Oil-palm agriculture is the greatest immediate threat to biodiversity in Southeast Asia. Despite the efforts of environmentalists, oil palm continues to expand across the tropics. Those concerned about the impacts of oil palm on biodiversity must face some harsh social, economic, and ecological realities: (i) oil palm has been a very profitable crop; (ii) palm oil is used in so many products that simple, direct actions, such as boycotts, are unlikely to succeed; (iii) there is currently insufficient demand for certified sustainable palm oil and inadequate political clout from environmental groups in two of the biggest markets for palm oil—China and India—to slow the rate of forest conversion; and (iv) oil-palm agriculture has improved the lives of poor rural communities in Southeast Asia (although it has also disenfranchised some indigenous communities). To address the threats posed by oil-palm agriculture to biodiversity, environmentalists must change the behavior of the palm oil business through: (i) regulations to curb undesirable activities (e.g., a ban on converting forests to oil palm); (ii) financial incentives to promote desirable behavior (e.g., production of certified, sustainable oil palm); (iii) financial disincentives designed to discourage undesirable behavior (e.g., consumer pressure on major manufac- turers and retailers to use palm oil that does not come from plantations created at the expense of forests); and (iv) the promotion of alternative, more biodiversity-friendly uses of forested land that might otherwise be converted to oil palm. There is no single best approach for dealing with the oil-palm crisis in Southeast Asia; a mixture of regulations, incentives, and disincentives targeted at all sectors of the oil-palm industry is necessary to protect the region’s rapidly disappearing forests.
Read more: http://www.ecology.ethz.ch/publications/2010/2010/Wilcove_2010_BiodiversityConservation.pdf

Innovation in Ministries

Sabah, previously known as North Borneo, has so much to explore and offer to the World at large not only in terms of its Cultural and physical bio-diversities, its rich flora and fauna, religious pluralism and racial tolerance but as a pivotal point for global agro-tourism which could contribute to the peace and prosperity in this region.
As far as those who subscribe to the teachings and Vision of Yashua HaMashiach, Isa Al-Masih in Arabic, this region will be the last frontiers in the 'ends of the World' that will experience the powerful visitation of the Holy Spirit that will lead to the transformation of corrupted leaders and governments into righteous and holy nations, bringing the love and glory of YHVH ELOHIM who had been revealed to the Kadazan as Kinoingan - The Name above all names!
But it will not happen unless there is genuine conviction and repentance by the leaders of the 12 main Kadazan tribes, namely KDZN or the Y and Z factions and all in between like the Rungus, Murut, Bonggi, etc and stopped cursing themsellves to be a non-human like Orchard(Dusun), River(Sungei), Herb (Tuavon), etc.