Tengku Hassanal Wildlife Reserve

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Tengku Hassanal Wildlife Reserve
Nearest city	Temerloh
Coordinates	3°43′N 102°10′E / 3.717°N 102.167°E / 3.717; 102.167
Area	60,552 ha (233.79 sq mi)
Authorized	June 1923; 101 years ago (1923-06)
Governing body	Department of Wildlife and National Parks

Tengku Hassanal Wildlife Reserve is one of the largest wildlife reserves in Peninsular Malaysia covering 605.52 km² located in the Titiwangsa Mountains, central state of Pahang, Malaysia that was established during the British Colonial Administration. It was officially gazetted to protect all wildlife species, particularly the gaur (Bos gaurus). The administrative offices of the reserve are located in several places. The main office is located in Bukit Rengit (southern side), and the other stations are in Lembah Klau (western side), Kuala Lompat (eastern side), and Perlok (northern side).

The lowland dipterocarp forest area contains a very high diversity of birds and mammals, especially primates and bats. There are a few Wildlife Conservation Centers managed by PERHILITAN in the close vicinity of the reserve. Mainly, Malayan Tiger Conservation Center, Kuala Gandah Elephant Conservation Centre, and Pusat Konservasi Jenderak Selatan. Among the birdlife, the rare Malayan peacock-pheasant is still found in the reserve in some numbers.

In the 1960s, Lord Medway led a zoological expedition to Gunong Benom (2,107 m asl) which later attracted many scholars, biologists, and primatologists to research the western part of the reserve called Kuala Krau research station.^[1]