SABAH FORESTRY DEPARTMENT

HIGH CONSERVATION VALUES (HCV)

There are ten (10) major HCV attributes that have been identified and managed by the Sabah Forestry Department in Sugut Conservation Area (SCA) Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Project. The HCV attributes are as follow:

1) HCV 1 BIODIVERSITY VALUES

  1. HCV 1.1 Protected Areas
  2. HCV 1.2 Threatened and Endangered Species
  3. HCV 1.3 Endemism
  4. HCV 1.4 Critical Temporal Use

2) HCV 2 LANDSCAPE LEVEL FOREST

3) HCV 3 ECOSYSTEMS

4) HCV 4 SERVICE OF NATURE

  1. HCV 4.1 Watershed Protection
  2. HCV 4.2 Erosion Control
  3. HCV 4.3 Barriers to Destructive Fire

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