Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Jeffrey Kitingan today stressed that the nature conservation agreement (NCA) did not involve the sale or collateral asset of forest land as alleged by opposition political leaders.

Kitingan (above), who is also state agriculture and fisheries minister, said the NCA is an agreement involving carbon credit trading that would benefit forest conservation and provide revenue to the Sabah government to develop the state.

"The NCA is a project to protect our forests to...