Totally Protected Animals of Sarawak

Certain species of animals are clarified  as totally protected in Sarawak under the Wildlife Protection Ordinance 1998. This is because they are now extremely rare, due to hunting and habitat destruction. Everyone's help is needed to ensure that they do not become extinct in Sarawak.

You are not allowed to keep them as pets, hunt, capture, kill, sell, import or export them, or possess any recognizable part of these animals without the written permission from the Contriller of Wild Life. The penalties for such offences are:

• for a rhinoceros, a fine of RM50,000 and five-years imprisonment;
• for an orang-utan or proboscis monkey, a fine of RM30,000 and two years imprisonment;
• for all other species, a fine of RM25,000 and two-years imprisonment.

If you have any enquiry, or know of anybody hunting or keeping any of these animals, please contact:

Enforcement Division
Forest Department Headquarters
Wisma Sumber Alam
Jalan Stadium, Petra Jaya
93660 KUCHING
SARAWAK

Information will be kept strictly confidential. Call us today at telephone No.

1.    Pejabat Hutan Bahagian Kuching -     082 - 443510
2.    Pejabat Hutan Bahagian Sibu -           084 - 334577
3.    Pejabat Hutan Bahagian Bintulu -      086 - 331117
4.    Pejabat Hutan Bahagian Miri -           085 - 413361
5.    Bahagian Hidupan Liar,
       Ibu Pejabat jabatan Hutan Sarawak - 082 - 319120 / 082-319104 atau 082-319544
       or  HOTLINE  - 1-800-88-7777

For further enquiry, please contact us

List of Totally Protected Animals in Sarawak

The following table refers to the First Schedule [Section 2(1)] PART I on Totally Protected Animals from the Wild Life Protection Ordinance, 1998 (Chapter 26).

Mammals

 Birds

Reptiles

The accompanying notes on the Totally Protected Animals have been extracted from A Field Guide to the MAMMALS of BORNEO by Junaidi Payne, Charles M. Francis and Karen Phillips (1994) ISBN 967-99947-1-6 and  A Field Guide to the BIRDS of BORNEO, SUMATRA, JAVA and BALI by John MacKinnion and Karen Phillipps (1995), ISBN 0-19-854034-5 with the kind permission of Karen Phillips.