Bengkoka Forest Reserve is a protected forest reserve in

Pitas District The Pitas District ( ms, Daerah Pitas) is an administrative district in the Malaysian state of Sabah, part of the Kudat Division which includes the districts of Kota Marudu, Kudat and Pitas. The capital of the district is in Pitas Town. Etym ...

of Kudat Division, on the

Bengkoka Peninsula The Bengkoka Peninsula ( ms, Semenanjung Bengkoka) is a peninsula in northern of Sabah, Malaysia. It consists of coastal with swampy areas. The peninsula become the area where the South China Sea meets the Sulu Sea. Geology The peninsula is ...

Sabah Sabah () is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia located in northern Borneo, in the region of East Malaysia. Sabah borders the Malaysian state of Sarawak to the southwest and the North Kalimantan province of Indone ...

, Malaysia. It was designated as a Class 1 Protection Forest by the Sabah Forestry Department in 1984. Its area is . The reserve is low-lying. Threats to the reserve forests include fires and land conversion for agriculture.

Flora and fauna

The most common tree species in Bengkoka Forest Reserve is '' Acacia mangium'', the main species in the reserve's plantation forest. Other reserve species include ''

Alstonia spatulata ''Alstonia spatulata'', also called hard milkwood or Siamese balsa, is a species of tree in the family Apocynaceae. It is found in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam V ...

'', ''

Macaranga tanarius ''Macaranga tanarius'' is a plant found in South East Asia, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, South China, Taiwan, and eastern Australia. It is commonly seen as a pioneer species in disturbed rainforest areas. Easily recognised for the round veiny le ...

'', '' Neolamarckia cadamba'' and ''

Trema orientalis ''Trema orientale'' (sometimes spelled ''Trema orientalis'') is a species of flowering tree in the hemp family, Cannabaceae. The basionym of ''T. orientalis'', ''Celtis orientalis'' was originally described and published in ''Species P ...

''. The reserve is home to barking deer and wild boar.

References

Forest reserves of Sabah {{Sabah-geo-stub