Pada 28 April 2025, Malaysian Palm Oil Green Conservation Foundation (MPOGCF) dengan kerjasama MPOB, MSPO, dan SD Guthrie telah menganjurkan kursus High Conservation Value (HCV) kepada 72 pegawai TUNAS MPOB bertempat di Sungai Johor Eco Retreat (SUNJER), Kota Tinggi, Johor.
Kursus ini bertujuan untuk melatih pegawai TUNAS MPOB sebagai penilai HCV di lanskap kebun pekebun kecil sawit dalam pematuhan pensijilan MSPO 2.0.
Pada program ini, peserta telah didedahkan dengan pelbagai ilmu pengetahuan seperti status Pematuhan Sijil MSPO, keperluan HCV dalam pensijilan kemampanan, perkongsian dapatan Kursus HCV & Biodiversiti kepada pekebun kecil sawit, pengurusan Konflik Hidupan Liar-Manusia di Semenanjung Malaysia serta kerja lapangan (Rapid HCV Assessment).
MPOGCF telah diwakil oleh Eksekutif Pemuliharaan dan Kemampanan), Zalifah Ramli, Nur Fatin Amirah Ahmad Amri dan Ahmad ‘Aizat Azuri.
Penceramah yang terlibat pula termasuklah Nur Aida Ab Ghani dari SD Guthrie, Maichal Isthyben Sawairnathan dari Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO) dan Mohd Saiful Mohd Zin dari Jabatan Perlindungan Hidupan Liar dan Taman Negara (PERHILITAN) Semenanjung Malaysia.
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On 28 April 2025, the Malaysian Palm Oil Green Conservation Foundation (MPOGCF), in collaboration with MPOB, MSPO, and SD Guthrie, organised a High Conservation Value (HCV) training course for 72 MPOB TUNAS officers. The course was held at Sungai Johor Eco Retreat (SUNJER) in Kota Tinggi, Johor.
The objective of the course was to train MPOB TUNAS officers as HCV assessors within smallholder oil palm landscapes in compliance with MSPO 2.0 certification.
During the program, participants were exposed to a range of important topics including MSPO certification compliance, the role of HCV in sustainability certification, findings from the HCV & Biodiversity Course for smallholders, human-wildlife conflict management in Peninsular Malaysia, as well as hands-on fieldwork (Rapid HCV Assessment).
MPOGCF was represented by its Conservation and Sustainability Executives: Zalifah Ramli, Nur Fatin Amirah Ahmad Amri, and Ahmad ‘Aizat Azuri.
Speakers included Nur Aida Ab Ghani from SD Guthrie, Maichal Isthyben Sawairnathan from the Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO), and Mohd Saiful Mohd Zin from the Department of Wildlife and National Parks (PERHILITAN) of Peninsular Malaysia.
