About Semenggoh Wildlife Centre
Within the Semenggoh Nature Reserve is the Semenggoh Wildlife Centre. Located 20 or so kilometres south of Kuching city, it is the biggest orangutan rehabilitation centre in Sarawak. It was established in 1975 as a sanctuary for orangutans that were injured, orphaned or taken from people who kept them illegally as pets. Over time it […]
Wildlife centre has a new baby orangutan
KUCHING: It was a sight to behold. Selina, the 18-year-old orangutan frequently spotted at the Semenggoh Wildlife Centre (SWC), was seen proudly carrying her new bundle of joy at the Feeding Platform 2 at 4pm on Tuesday (May 10). The Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC) believes Selina conceived in August last year. “The beautiful deep orange […]
Life of an orangutan casanova
More than a year has passed since my namesake, Ritchie the orangutan alpha male, disappeared from the 653ha Semenggoh Wildlife Centre forest. I have done my own investigations to find out what happened because several years ago, he fell from a 150-ft tall tree and broke a limb. Thanks to Ritchie’s keeper Murtadza Othman, a […]
King Ritchie goes AWOL
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. — Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist, ethologist and popular-science writer Last weekend, I received an urgent call from the Semenggoh Wildlife Center informing me that my “foster” son Ritchie had disappeared. It was not the first time that the orangutan […]
Company adopts orangutan
KUCHING: As part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme, X-FAB Silicon Foundries has adopted an orangutan named Jubilee at Semenggoh Wildlife Centre in support of Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC) orangutan conservation efforts. In a CSR initiative sometime in December last year, the company worked with SFC to promote awareness of the primate’s conservation and […]
