{"id":3076,"date":"2024-04-29T09:10:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T09:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/2024\/04\/29\/japanese-investor-keen-to-build-elephant-corridor\/"},"modified":"2024-04-29T09:10:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T09:10:03","slug":"japanese-investor-keen-to-build-elephant-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/?p=3076","title":{"rendered":"Japanese investor keen to build elephant corridor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"3074\" src=\"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240427_1207491147822621981870545-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240427_1207491147822621981870545-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240427_1207491147822621981870545-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240427_1207491147822621981870545-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240427_1207491147822621981870545-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240427_1207491147822621981870545.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Christina Liew said a Japanese keen to build an elephant wildlife corridor in Kinabatangan, contributing for wildlife preservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investor, motivated by a love for wildlife, has purchased land for the project, without asking any charges from the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at the Matta Fair Sabah at SICC on April 26-28, she said the Sabah Tourism Board will engage in further discussions with the investor in Japan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The corridor aims to protect elephants from entering plantations in search of food and enhance tourist sightings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, efforts to promote Mount Trusmadi include organizing a mountain race. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Liew urged regular dialogue among tourism stakeholders for sector improvement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Matta Fair&#8217;s expansion to 90 booths indicates a thriving tourism sector, with significant tourist arrivals and receipts in early 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Christina Liew said a Japanese keen to build an elephant wildlife corridor in Kinabatangan, contributing for wildlife preservation. The investor, motivated by a love for wildlife, has purchased land for the project, without asking any charges from the state. Speaking at the Matta Fair Sabah at SICC on April&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot_20240429_170647_Google.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}