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The Niah National Park and Lambir Hills National Park in the Miri division are temporarily closed to the public with immediate effect due to serious flooding, the Sarawak Forestry Corporation said in a statement Tuesday.

It said the parks were closed for safety reasons and an announcement would be made once they were ready to receive visitors.

Niah, which is about 109 km from Miri and 131 km from Bintulu, is one of Sarawak's smallest national parks but it is one of the most important archaeological sites in the world following the discovery of the oldest modern human remains in Southeast Asia.

The 6,952-hectare Lambir Hills National Park, which is only 32 km from the Miri city centre, has a complex and diverse forest eco-system, including 237 different species of birds, flying squirrels, wild pigs, gibbons, many different types of monkey, various species of deer besides insects and other invertebrates.

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