| Sungkai Conservation Centre Conservation effort at this centre focuses on captive breeding programmes for the sambar deer and several other indigenous pheasant species. This 50 hectare centre was opened in 1971 to develop and maintain a sustainable genetic breeding pool for each of the rare and endangered species it maintains.
The ultimate aim of this centre is to release breeding stocks of these animals back into their natural environments. The Sungkai centre currently has about 63 Sambar deers, 15 Timor deer and 14 mouse-deers The pheasant species available here include 11 crested and great argus pheasants, 29 mountain and Malaysian peacocks, three green pea-fowls and 19 crestless and crested firebacks.
Popular also with touring school children on holiday-learning-excursions, this centre positively promotes the importance and necessity of fauna conservation amidst fast-paced modernization and growth.
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