Matang Wildlife Centre, Kuching

Last Updated: 05 November 2016

Matang Wildlife Centre, Kuching

Matang wildlife centre at Matang is about 30 km from Kuching City and covers an area of 180 hectares of lowland forest, it takes about 40 minutes to reach the Centre.

There is no regular or scheduled transportation that goes directly to the centre, thus, hiring a taxi is recommended. Alternatively, you may contact any of the travel operators who offer packaged tours or return transfer to the center. The main objective of this center is housing endangered wildlife in large enclosed areas of rainforest or spacious cages. The main attraction is the orang utan, where young orang utans, who were either orphaned or rescued from captivity, are taught how to survive in the wild which will subsequently be placed at Semenggoh Wildlife Reserve, upon being independent; the centre also includes spacious enclosures housing sambar deer, crocodiles, sun bears, civets and bear cats, and three large aviaries featuring hornbills, eagles, kites, storks and a host of other birds native to Sarawak. Among the objectives of the centre may fall under below category:

Student exposure, where student from primary to University could do nature and out-of-class studies,
Class work and research, the Centre providing venues for nature, wildlife and program for both local and international level, popular program is orang-utan adoption and volunteering program,
Conservation of endangered animal species; this wildlife centre will rehabilitated this endangered species before release them back into nature after being taught of independently survived.
Tourism and Recreation, to boost local and international tourism and recreation about nature. Visitors could enjoy nature scenery and lowland forest trek along the nature trails.
As an alternative to Visitors that missed the chance to close encounter with orang-utan in-wild / semi-wild at Semenggoh Reserve. In Matang, the visitors is guaranteed sighting the orang-utan in captivity and their feeding actions. This centre cares for the very elderly orang-utans that cannot be let free and the very young that are being taught skills so they can be transferred to Semenggoh and eventually released into the wild.