ecotourism
Major Threat to Semai Ecotourism
The Semai village of Ulu Geroh in Malaysia has been much noted by the press, as recently as last week, for its community approach to promoting ecotourism in the nearby forests. Nearly a decade ago, the villagers realized that saltlicks in their region were quite important to the rare Rajah Brooke birdwing butterflies. They also […]
Semai Tourism Develops Sophisticated Outreach
A newspaper story last Saturday featured the village of Ulu Geroh, in Malaysia, where local Semai guides take tourists to see the Rajah Brooke Birdwing butterflies and the rare Rafflesia flowers. The story in The Star updates information provided by an AFP dispatch on the subject in November. The community-based organization that hosts tourists is […]
Semai Village Protects Rafflesia Flowers
Agence France-Presse released an article last week describing the way the people in one Semai village protect the rare Rafflesia plants so they can show them to ecotourists. The Semai living in the community of Ulu Geroh, in northern Perak state, have been featured in the news in 2005 and again in 2006 for their […]
Semai Community Preserves Rare Rafflesia Blossoms
A Semai community has set up an organization to preserve one of the largest flowers on earth, a Rafflesia, in a new nature sanctuary. The Semai villagers in Kampong Ulu Gerok, Perak, Malaysia, used to gather the giant buds in the forest near their homes and sell them to collectors in Gopeng, about 12 km […]
