Green Practices Guideline for Fisheries Sector

AGRICULTURE Malaysian Organic Scheme (SOM) or Malaysia Organic (MyOrganic) is a certification that recognises farms that practice good agricultural practices and organic farming based on Malaysian Standard MS 1529:2015. IMPACT: 253 farms have been certified with MyOrganic certification with an area of 2,045.60 hectares. SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF FOREST Forest certification scheme that allow the annual allowable cut in the Permanent Reserved Forest (PRF) is capped at 85 m 3 /ha for the period of Tenth & Eleventh Malaysia Plan. IMPACT: Malaysian Criteria and Indicators for Forest Management Certification 2001. Emission avoidance: 20,307.50 Gg CO 2 eq CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES RELEVANT INITIATIVE: Malaysia’s Protected Area (PA) Network TARGET: Increase the Protected Area to at least 20% by 2025. IMPACT: Protected Area increased from 2.757 to 3.171 million ha between 2014 and 2016 FOREST ENRICHMENT PROGRAMMES AIMS: • Improve degraded forest sequestration capacity • Enhance connectivity between forests through two distinct initatives EXAMPLES: • Central Forest Spine (CFS) Programme in Peninsular Malaysia • Heart of Borneo (HoB) Programme in Sabah and Sarawak 19 GREEN PRACTICES GUIDELINE FOR FISHERIES SECTOR (AQUACULTURE)