Semenggoh Nature Reserve

Semenggoh Nature Reserve is Sarawak's oldest forest reserve. The Reserve has been an important site for Sarawak Forest Department experimental studies and houses an arboretum, a wildlife rehabilitation centre especially for Orang Utan, a botanical research centre, trial plantation and experimental plots, forest nursery and the former Forest School.

The reserve is just located 20 km south of Kuching and readily accessible by road, this 653 ha Nature Reserve is ideal for recreational purposes. The area consists of primary lowland mixed dipterocarp forest and old secondary forests with patches of kerangas forest. The undisturbed primary forest contains probably the richest flora in the world. The palm Areca ahmadeii is endemic to the reserve.

The Nature Reserve houses various rare flora and fauna. It is known to be inhabited by a large variety of birds, of which most are migrants. Birds present include the bulbuls, babblers, barbets, kingfishers, shamas, drongos, pigeons, woodpeckers and tailorbirds. The Giant Squirrel and Pigmy squirrel are also found here. The presence of gibbons are due to the rehabilitation programmes conducted here.