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On paper, 9 percent of Kalimantan, 8 percent of Sarawak, and 14 percent of Sabah are under some form of protection according to WWF, with the caveat that some areas designated as protected aren't really safe from deforestation. For example, in Kalimantan only 82 percent of "protected forest" is actually forested. Further, between 1985 and 2001, Kalimantan's protected lowland forests declined by about 56 percent, according to Lisa Curran.

WWF reports cites Kutai National Park as a case in point. Kutai was established in 1936 as a 306,000 hectare preserve but as timber concessions and oil exploration rights have been granted over the years, the park has since been reduced to an official area of 198,629 hectares. In the 1980s and 1990s illegal logging left much of the forest in a degraded state. The fires of 1997-1998 burned 92 percent of the park area.

Gunung Palung National Park in West Kalimantan is another example. From 1998-2002 70 percent of the lowland buffer zone was deforested and today less than 9 percent of the buffer zone is lowland forest. Within the park, 38 percent of the lowland forest has been cleared by loggers.

Sabah
Of Sabah's 7.37 million hectares of land, 60 percent are forested (2005) according to the State Environmental Conservation Department. 3.6 million hectares of this forested area (known as the Permanent Forest Estate) can be broken down as follows: