Rafflesia flowers
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 Forest Preserved Temporarily from Logging
Spectacular Rafflesia flowers and Rajah Brooke Birdwing butterflies are among the highlights of a Semai nature reserve in Perak State, Malaysia, that has faced the threat of logging for years. Last week, the state government issued a stop-work order to prevent any more logging, at least temporarily, in the vicinity of the Bukit Kinta Forest […]
Rare Malaysian Flowers May Be Threatened by Logging
Two years ago the Semai in the Malaysian village of Ulu Geroh were enthusiastically promoting their new ecotourism business, but today it may be threatened by logging. A news report on Friday, December 15th, in the Star Online from Malaysia indicated that the Semai are very concerned about a logging operation that is moving near […]
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 […]
