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Penang National Park is the first protected area legally gazetted under Malaysia's National Park Act of 1980, signifying the state and federal governments' environmental protection efforts. It was established to preserve flora and fauna as well as objects with geological, archaeological, historical, ethnological, scientific, and scenic interests.
The Penang Botanic Gardens Department aims to provide visitors with programmes that focus on the historical and cultural heritage of the gardens, the plant collections, natural landscape and rich diversity of flora and fauna. It also aims to provide professional advice related to botany, taxonomy, horticulture and landscaping. [4]
Bamboo orchid. Malaysia is a Megadiverse country, [1] of which two thirds is covered in forest [2] which is believed to be 130million years old. [3] It is composed of a variety of types, although they are mainly dipterocarp forests. [4]
Penang National Park, declared 2003; Gunung Ledang National Park, gazetted 2005; ... Ulu Sebuyau National Park; Usun Apau National Park; Wind Cave Nature Reserve; Sabah
Floods in East Malaysia have been worsened by the loss of trees, and over 60% of the peninsula's forest has been cleared. [4] With current rates of deforestation, the forests are predicted to be extinct by 2020. [2] From 2000 to 2019, Sabah lost 1.60Mha, or 24%, of its tree cover. 51% of this loss came from Tongod, Beluran, Tawau, and ...
Taman Negara is a national park in Peninsular Malaysia.It was established in 1938 and 1939 as the King George V National Park after Theodore Hubback lobbied the sultans of Pahang, Terengganu and Kelantan to set aside a piece of land that covers the three states for the creation of a protected area. [1]
The forests in Malaysia are mostly dominated by trees from the dipterocarp forests. The dipterocarp forest occurs on dry land just above sea level to an altitude of around 900 metres. Other than that, the forest canopy is very dense where a small amount of sunlight can penetrate it. Because of that, the undergrowth plants are usually poorly ...
Endemic flora of Peninsular Malaysia (1 C, 385 P) T. Trees of Peninsular Malaysia (499 P) Pages in category "Flora of Peninsular Malaysia"