| Mescot The Model Ecologically Sustainable Community Tourism Project (MESCOT) is a grassroots conservation organization in the village of Batu Putih along the Kinabatangan River in Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia. Their activities involve the local communities through a Homestay Program, community based ecotourism activities as well as forest conservation, lake restorations and rehabilitation projects in the Lower Kinabatangan. 
The lake before | 
The lake after | In the past 6 months, a team from MESCOT supported by AAF has been able to manually clear a lake infested with an aquatic fern called Salvinia. “The area is now BEAUTIFUL and ALIVE (no longer stagnant and dying), and rich with wildlife - fish life returning in abundance leading to bird life coming back in abundance: oriental darters, purple herons, storm storks, etc. everywhere.” witnessed Cynthia Ong from LEAP.   The Mescot Silvinia Story Part 1
1st MESCOT-KOPEL Lake Restoration Evaluation Report, June 2006 | | | 11/26/2007: New Forests, an Australian investment firm, signs an agreement with the Forestry Department of Sabah, Malaysia to invest in forest conservation  "An Australian investment firm announced (...) that it would spend about $10 million in an agreement with authorities in Malaysia to protect more than 30,000 hectares (74,130 acres) of forests that is home to orangutans, pygmy elephants and other endangered species." | | | |
