Malaysia's magnificent Belum-Temengor rainforests are 130
million year old, making them some of the richest and most
ancient rainforests in the world. Located in Perak state along
the Thailand border of Peninsular Malaysia, Belum-Temengor's
300,000 hectares of ancient rainforest consists of the Royal
Belum State Park (but not officially gazetted) and the Temengor
Forest Reserve (as a 'Forest Reserve' not totally protected).
Belum Temengor rainforests are a world-class wilderness with
tremendous ecological, aesthetic and economic values including
immense tourism potential. Sadly, this large and intact life-
sustaining ancient rainforest marvel is now under threat from
both legal and illegal industrial logging. Malaysia is one of 12
"mega-diversity" countries, placing Belum-Temengor amongst the
"richest of the rich" biological resources on the planet. Belum-
Temengor's rainforests provide the last refuge for at least 14
globally threatened mammals including the Sumatran rhino, the
Malayan tiger, the Asian elephan