Penang may be well-known for many things but not much is known about the island’s rich natural biodiversity. This may change especially since on September 15, 2021, the International Coordinating Council (ICC) of Unesco’s Man and the Biosphere Programme formally inducted the Penang Hill Biosphere Reserve into the World Network of Biosphere Reserves. With this listing, the Penang Hill Biosphere Reserve joins a distinguished global network of 714 Biosphere Reserves in 129 countries, including 21 transboundary sites.
The Habitat Penang Hill, an environmental discovery centre that opened in January 2016, and its NGO
