Taman Negara

Rainforest
EVM GA - AYAT KHAN
Taman Negara Rainforest.
TAMAN NEGARA RAINFOREST HAS BEEN ONE OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST
FORESTS. IT HAS BEEN AROUND FOR 130 MILLION YEARS, WHICH
SUGGESTS THAT DINOSAURS PREVIOUSLY ROAMED THE FOREST. TAMAN
NEGARA, WHICH COVERS AN AREA OF 4343 SQUARE KILOMETRES, IS ONE
OF MALAYSIA'S BEST AND MOST FAMOUS TOURIST SITES.
History
TAMAN NEGARA), ORIGINALLY WAS GAZETTED AS GUNUNG TAHAN
GAME RESERVE IN 1925 AND IN 1939 IT WAS DECLARED AS A NATIONAL
PARK BY THE BRITISH ADMINISTRATORS UNDER THE NAME ‘KING
GEORGE V NATIONAL PARK’ UNDER ENACTMENT 1939, TO
COMMEMORATE THE INSTALLATION OF KING GEORGE V IN ENGLAND.
HISTORICALLY THE THREE PARTS WERE ENACTED UNDER THE
RESPECTIVE MALAY STATES OF KELANTAN, PAHANG AND TERENGGANU,
AND HENCE CAME UNDER THE PURVIEW OF THE RESPECTIVE SULTANS
OF THE THREE STATES AND THE BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER.
HOWEVER, AFTER INDEPENDENCE IN 1957 “TAMAN NEGARA” CAME
UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE KING YANG AND THE RESPECTIVE
SULTANS OF THE THREE STATES. ADMINISTRATIVELY IT WAS PUT UNDER
THE MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENT AND
THE ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT CAME UNDER THE
DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND NATIONAL PARKS, PENINSULAR
MALAYSIA OR PERHILITON. THE NATIONAL PARK WAS DECLARED AS
ASEAN HERITAGE PARK IN THE YEAR 1984.
Content

01 Biodiversity

02 Endangered Species

Sustainabi lity and

03 human inter vention
Biodiversity
MALAYSIA IS ONE OF THE GLOBE'S 12 GLOBAL
BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS, AND TAMAN NEGARA'S
TROPICAL RAINFOREST IS ONE OF THE PLANET'S
MOST INTRICATE AND DIVERSE ECOSYSTEMS.
THE PARK IS HOME TO OVER 14,000 SPECIES OF
PLANTS AND TREES MORE THAN ANY FOREST IN
THE WORLD. THERE ARE ABOUT 2,400
FLOWERING PLANT SPECIES, 200 ANIMAL
SPECIES, 350 BIRD SPECIES, 67 SNAKE SPECIES,
55 FROG SPECIES, 80 BAT SPECIES, 30 RAT
SPECIES, AND 109 FRESHWATER FISH SPECIES (15
SPECIES ENDEMIC TO TAMAN NEGARA).
Physical Ecosystem of Taman Negara
NONE OF NEGARA’S G EOLOGICAL F EAT URES H AVE BEEN C ARVED
MY MAN, ALL OF THE EXISTING ONES HAVE O C C URED N ATU RALLY.
THIS FOREST CONSIST S OF 3 MOUNTAIN RID GES ; TEKU, GUN U N G
TANGGA DUA BELAS AND GUNUNG T AHAN.

THE LOW-LYING TERRAIN OF T AMAN NEG ARA IS PRI M ARI LY

LARGELY OF SMALLER S EDIMENT ARY ROCKS. THE PEC U LIAR
LIMESTONE KARSTS OF T ROPICAL T ERRAIN FORM ED BY TERTI ARY
PERIOD DESOLUTION PROCES S ES ENCOMPAS S FEATURES S UC H AS
MOGOTES AND TOWER KARS TS WIT H CAVES OF DI VERS E S I ZES AN D
CONFIGURATIONS.
Biodiversity in Flora
THE NATIONAL PARK IS
CONSIDERED AS ONE OF T HE
RICHEST AREA IN TERM OF PLANT
SPECIES AND GENETIC D IVERS IT Y
AND HOSTS MORE THAN 3,000
SPECIES OF PLANTS. T HE FERN
FLORA ARE WELL ENDOWED WIT H
MORE THAN 246 SPECIES IN 26
FAMILIES SUCH AS SELAGINELLA
WILDENOWII, S. MIRABIL IS, S.
SCABRIDA
Biodiversity in Fauna
THE NATIONAL PARK HOS TS T HE
LARGEST POPULATIONS OF
ANIMALS THAT CONSI S T OF ABOUT
150 SPECIES OF MAMMAL S
INCLUDING ASIAN ELEPHANT
(ELEPHAS MAXIMUS), MAL AYAN
TIGER (PANTHERA TIGRIS
JACKSONI), CLOUDED L EOPARD
(NEOFELIS NEBULOSA) , L EOPARD
CAT (PRIONAILURUS
BENGALENSIS), FLAT- HEADED CAT
(PRIONAILURUS PLANICEPS ), AS IAN
GOLDEN CAT (CATOPUMA
TEMMINCKII)
Facts about Taman negara
- TAMAN NEGARA IS FAMOUS F OR ITS ORAN G AS LI TRI BE

- IT HAS THE LONGEST WIL DLIF E CANOPY WALK

-SPECIES WHICH ARE ENDEMIC TO PENINSU LAR M ALAYS IA S UC H AS

FLAVIDULA, HORNSTED TIA OPHIUCHUS AND G EOS TAC H YS
TAHANENSI S CAN BE FOUND IN TAMAN NEG ARA
Endangered species of Taman negara
- MALAYAN TIGER
-MALAYAN TAPIRS
-ASIAN ELEPHANTS
-BLACK SHREW
Malayan tigers
THE PANTHERA TIGRIS SUBSPECIES, WHICH IS
INDIGENOUS TO PENINSULAR MALAYSIA,
CONTAINS A POPULATION OF TIGERS KNOWN AS
THE MALAYAN TIGER. THE IUCN RED LIST HAS
LISTED THIS POPULATION, WHICH RESIDES IN
THE SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL REGIONS OF THE
MALAY PENINSULA, AS SEVERELY ENDANGERED
SINCE 2015. IN APRIL 2014, THE POPULATION WAS
PROJECTED TO BE BETWEEN 80 AND 120 ADULT
PEOPLE, WITH A PERSISTENT DOWNWARD.
TENDENCY.
Malayan tapirs
THE ONLY TAPIR SPECIES INDIGENOUS TO
SOUTHEAST ASIA, FROM THE MALAY PENINSULA
TO SUMATRA, IS THE MALAYAN TAPIR (TAPIRUS
INDICUS), SOMETIMES KNOWN AS AN ASIAN,
ASIATIC, OR INDIAN TAPIR. SINCE THERE ARE
BELIEVED TO BE LESS THAN 2,500 MATURE
INDIVIDUALS IN THE POPULATION, IT HAS BEEN
CLASSIFIED AS ENDANGERED ON THE IUCN RED
LIST SINCE 2008.
Asian elephants
THE ONLY LIVING SPECIES OF THE GENUS
ELEPHAS IS THE ASIAN ELEPHANT (ELEPHAS
MAXIMUS), COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS THE
ASIATIC ELEPHANT. IT IS FOUND THROUGHOUT
SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE INDIAN
SUBCONTINENT, FROM INDIA IN THE WEST TO
BORNEO IN THE EAST.
Black shrew
THE SOLE KNOWN LOCATION FOR THE BLACK
SHREW (SUNCUS ATER), A WHITE-TOOTHED
SHREW, IS MOUNT KINABALU IN THE MALAYSIAN
STATE OF SABAH IN BORNEO.
The Orang Asli tribe of
Malaysia
ORANG ASLI ARE A HETEROGENEOUS INDIGENOUS
POPULATION FORMING A NATIONAL MINORITY IN
MALAYSIA. THEY ARE THE OLDEST INHABITANTS OF
PENINSULAR MALAYSIA.

THE ORANG ASLI ARE A DISTINCT GROUP, ALONGSIDE

THE MALAYS, CHINESE, INDIANS, AND THE INDIGENOUS
EAST MALAYSIANS OF SABAH AND SARAWAK.

ORANG ASLI SETTLEMENTS ARE SCATTERED AMONG

THE MOSTLY MALAY POPULATION OF THE COUNTRY,
OFTEN IN MOUNTAINOUS AREAS OR THE JUNGLES OF
THE RAINFOREST.
BY RAINFOREST, THEM BEING THE OLDEST HUMAN
NATIVES OF TAMAN NEGARA
Modern human intervention in Taman
negara
THE MODERN INTERVENTION OF T AMAN NEGARA,
THE RAINFOREST HAS TURNED INT O A NAT ION AL RES ERVE AN D A
TOURIST SPOT.
THE HUMAN INTERVENT ION IN CONTEXT BEIN G AS FOLLOWS -
-THE CANOPY WALK ( TOURIS M)
-RESTAURANTS SPOTTED AROUND T HE RAIN FORES T FOR TH E
TOURISTS AND THE NAT IONAL RESERVE CARE TAKERS
- TAMAN NEGARA
SO FAR THE INTERVENT ION HAS BEEN HARMLES S , THE EC OS YS TEM
OF THE FOREST STILL S TAYS UNT OUCHED MAKI N G TH E EXI S TEN C E
OR THAT PI ECE OF LAND A SIGHT F OR MAN TO BEH OLD.
THANK YOU
AYAT KHAN