Sarawak Biodiversity Centre

The Sarawak Biodiversity Centre (SBC) is one of Sarawak’s leading state government agencies in research and development (R&D). SBC is established under the Sarawak Biodiversity Centre Ordinance and is committed to documentation of Traditional Knowledge among the indigenous communities of Sarawak and implementation of a R&D/Biodiscovery programme to discover novel therapeutic/useful compounds from Sarawak’s unique biodiversity.

As stipulated in the Sarawak Biodiversity Ordinance 1997, Sarawak Biodiversity Regulations 1998 and Sarawak Biodiversity (Amendment) Ordinance 2003 and Sarawak Biodiversity (Amendment) Ordinance 2014, SBC carries out the following core functions:

- implementing bioprospecting programmes on the State's indigenous biodiversity
- facilitating the documentation of Traditional Knowledge on communities' management and utilization of biodiversity
- propagating Sarawak's indigenous plants for conservation and appreciation
maintaining biodiversity related databases
- conducting biodiversity-biotechnology awareness and appreciation programmes
- regulating biodiversity-related research with commercial potential in Sarawak through the Research Permit System
- networking with organizations with similar interests