HUTANWATCH

The Central Forest Spine (CFS) initiative is the brainchild of the Malaysian Federal Department of Town and Country Planning (now known as ‘PLANMalaysia’) and was first publicized in 2009 through the department’s CFS-Master Plan (CFS-MP). Elements of the wide-ranging master plan made its way into the Second National Physical Plan (NPP-2), encapsulated by: “The development focus for the Central Highlands is to establish and protect a contiguous Central Forest Spine through the

“Improving Connectivity in the Central Forest Spine Landscape”, or IC-CFS, is a GEF-funded (Global Environment Facility) project with the objective of “Sustainable land and forest management in the Central Forest Spine (CFS) Landscape secures the critical wildlife habitats, conserves biodiversity and maintains continuous flow of multiple ecosystem services” (2014-2020) in Peninsular Malaysia – specifically, in the forest landscapes of Belum-Temenggor (354.6 kha; Perak), Endau