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s Hill is known as a tourist destination as it is situated in the Raub District of Pahang in the Titiwangsa Range region. However, the threat of commercial development activities has disrupted the ecosystem of the forests within Fraser's Hill Forest Complex (FHFC) and has been concerning differ-ent community groups, especially the locals. Thus, the objectives of this paper are to assess the evaluation of ecotourism in FHFC by using Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) to identify the appropriate price level of people's willingness to pay (WTP) for conservation fees and to find out the feasibility to continue with the suggestion for the establishment of FHFC as a State Park in Malaysia. The result shows that the public is willing to pay as much as RM3.60 per person for the conservation fee of FHFC and the local community's willingness to pay is higher compared to the public which is RM3.90 per person. For the overall respondents, the total willingness to pay is equal to RM3.70 per person. In the survey for the establishment of Fraser's Hill State Park, more than 70% of the respondent are agreeable and stated that as a good idea for the future development of FHFC.

Kelantan is one of the states in Malaysia with the third largest forest area in Malaysia. Most of the forest in Kelantan has not explored. However, some of the forest areas cleared for logging and development activities. In response to the Malaysian government’s commitment to sustainable forest management, the state of Kelantan took the initiative by developing forest plantation to support the production of raw materials for timber-based industrial activities. The major sources of the raw materials for timber coming from the natural forest instead of forest plantation. This paper examines the economic impact on the supply of timber in Kelantan complies with the scenarios under Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) practices. The Ordinary Least Square method was used time-series data from 2010 to 2017. The scenario comprised of three scenarios; (i) reduced by 24% in harvested area in natural forest, (ii) increased by 24% in harvested area in forest plantation and (iii) incorporated with scenarios (i) and (ii). The result reveals that the supply of timber affected by SFM practices. However, the shortage of timber enhanced by the production of timber from forest plantation by 4.8% when both scenarios imposed together. This indicated that the changes from dependence on the natural forest-to-forest plantation to produce timber in the further are needed. The state government of Kelantan need to encourage forest authority to increase the intensity of forest plantation in Kelantan order to fulfill the production of timber as raw material for forest products. This action would generate economic growth in the timber-based sector in line with its sustainability in Kelantan. It will also help to enhance its forest conservation goal in Peninsular Malaysia.