Kuala Lumpur is located in Selangor in the western part of the peninsula, about

40 kilometers from the coast. Situated in a vast valley known as the Klang Valley, KL
is flanked by the Titiwangsa Mountains to the east and the Strait of Malacca to the
west. The city has 13 districts, which are Ampang, Batu Caves, Cheras, Damansara,
Gombak, Hulu Kelang, Kepong, Kuala Lumpur, Petaling, Petaling Jaya, Sentul,
Setapak, and Sungai Besi.

Currently, Kuala Lumpur is a very developed city, which is not surprising because
the city is a tourist center. However, we can still find ancient and secondary forests
in Kuala Lumpur and its surrounding areas, which are home to wild animals, plants
and tropical trees and plants.

For wildlife, encounter with Apes and Monkeys like macaques are very common,
they can be found at nature reserves and rural temples such as those at Batu caves.
There is also leaf-eating langurs, the silvered leaf monkey whose fur is frosted with
grey tips that can be found at Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) and KL
Forest Eco Park. The most common animals in Kuala Lumpur are domestic dogs and
cats. However, since almost all populations are local Muslims, many people have a
negative attitude towards them. It’s also not any better for cats. Many wild cat are
threatened with extinction due to hunting and the trade in body parts for
traditional medicines. There are more than 100 kinds of bats living in Malaysia, but
bats are often seen in Kuala Lumpur. Snakes and reptile are rare in the downtown KL,
but in city parks, including Lake Gardens, you will most likely find monitor lizards,
which are primitive carrion feeders that are notorious for eating domestic cats.

The humid, tropical climate of the area has produced a wide variety of trees,
plants and flowers, including carnivorous pitcher plants, a large number of orchids
and parasitic raffia trees and other iconic species. However, the most common
plants in KL is oil palms since large area of rainforest have been cleared, paving
the way for the cultivation of cash crops such as rubber and oil palm. The jungles
of Malaysia contain some of the oldest undisturbed rainforest areas in the world.
Fortunately, some of the best and most spectacular rain forests have been included
in national parks. For example, in the center of Kuala Lumpur, you can visit the KL
Forest Ecological Park, which protects the original rainforest, and the Taman Tugu
Park, which protects the secondary rainforest.

References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klang_Valley

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KL forest eco park