Orang utan back at Bukit Piton

In his element: A male orang utan spotted relaxing on one of the replanted trees in the Bukit Piton Forest Reserve area.

LAHAD DATU: The northern portion of the Ulu Segama-Malua fo­rest, once ravaged by logging and fires in the 1980s and 1990s, is now beco­ming more habitable for its prized inhabitants – the orang utan.

Today, some seven years after a 10-year project was started in 2008 to reforest and rehabilitate the orang utan habitats in North Ulu Segama Forest Reserve (now known as Bukit Piton Forest Reserve), a 50-minute drive from here, its success is evident.