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FOREST DEPARTMENT SARAWAK
ANNUAL REPORT 2009

1. Training

 Botany Refresher Course (Part 1 & 2)
 Familiarization with activities relating to Ecological Research

 Tree Identification Course

2. Survey and Data Collection

 Timber Samples Collection

 Herbarium specimen collection of 556 samples comprising various species of plants

 Data Collection for the Sarawak Canopy Biology Programme (SCBP) at Lambir

National Park, Miri.

 Macrofungal surveying at various localities
 Reconnaissance surveys at various research stations, Sabal Agroforestry Centre,

Reforestation Project at Sabal Forest Reserves, Bintangor tree plots at Matang
Wildlife Centre, and Shin Yang Ulu Baram Forest Plantation in Baram. The fields’

visits had enabled the staff to gain essential knowledge for future research.

3. Maintenance and Conservation

 Maintenance of more than 250,000 herbarium specimens of plants

 Maintenance of forest fungal herbarium comprising wet and dry specimens totaling

5,716 samples.
 Conservation: Wild fruit germplasm collections from different localities in Sarawak

 Collection of soil samples

4. Collaboration

 Collaboration between the Entomologycal Research Unit with Faculty of Biological
and Environmental Sciences, Japan on Isopteran taxa (insects groups).

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