Rainforest Discovery Centre (RDC)

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The Rainforest Discovery Centre (RDC) evolved from small, cozy environmental education (EE) centre in 1996 into one of Sabah's most popular EE centres. It is a within the famous Kabili-Sepilok Forest Reserve, home of the orang utans at the Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre. The RDC is managed by the Sabah Forestry Department.

Although the main purpose of the RDC remains as an environmental education centre for students and teachers, it has opened its doors to the public since August 2007. It is now opened daily from 8.00 am to 5.00 pm. Together with the nearby Sepilok Orang-utan Rehabilitation Centre, it is hoped that the RDC will help boost the tourism industry in the Sandakan district.

All proceeds from ticket sales will be used to sustain our centre so that we can continue to organise EE programmes for students, teacher training courses and other environment-related activities. If you visit the RDC during weekends, you will most likely see school children being guided around the Exhibition Hall by our education staff...and elsewhere for that matter.

Thanks for supporting us!

Our recent events:
Tanak Wetland/World Wetland Day (26th Feb - 1st Mac 2014)
In-house Training on Environmental Education for KOPEL (11th - 14th Mac 2014).
Kiyosato Experiment Exchange Project (KEEP) - Malaysia-Japan-Taiwan Exchange Programme for Environmental Education (23rd-25th March 2014)
First Aid Training (26th - 28th Mac 2014)
HoB Roadshow, Keningau (2nd April 2014)

Address:
Rainforest Discovery Centre
PO Box 1407, 90715 Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia
Tel: (+6) 089-533780 / (+6) 089-533781
E-mail: rdcsepilok@yahoo.com
Website: www.forest.sabah.gov.my/rdc/