BINTULU: The newly-opened Sarawak Rainforest and Sustainable Forest Management Discovery Centre in Bukit Kana, Tatau near here provides an insight into the state’s rich flora and fauna.
Visitors can learn more about the rainforest, an important source of food to the native inhabitants, through the exhibits and related information.
The centre, which was launched by Sarawak Forestry director Datuk Len Talif Salleh on Thursday, was set up in conjunction with the certification of the Anap-Muput sustainable forest management unit.
The Anap-Muput unit is the first in Sarawak certified under the 2002 Malaysian Criteria and Indicator for Sustainable Forest Management.
More than 1,200 Ibans from 15 longhouses live around the certified forest.
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