[3][4] It is a significant wetland conservation area under the jurisdiction of the Forestry Department, valued for its role in biodiversity protection and ecological importance.
Visitors travelling from the capital can reach Kampong Sungai Liang in about an hour via the Telisai–Lumut Highway, where a left-hand exit leads to Jalan Labi.
[9] Initially, only 10 hectares were open to the public, and the park underwent further renovations before its official reopening by Yahya Bakar, the minister of industry and primary resources at the time, in 2012, to commemorate World Forestry Day.
[5] Situated within the Labi Hills forest reserve, Luagan Lalak is a 270-hectare (670-acre)[b][6] alluvial freshwater swamp (empran), notable for its dark waters and expansive fields of Lepironia articulata (purun)—grass-like plants with triangular stems and small blossoms.
[5][6] Numerous elusive terrestrial mammals, such as the Sunda pangolin, maroon leaf monkey, colugo, and Horsfield's tarsier, can be found in Luagan Lalak.
Among the notable birds are the garnet pitta, argus pheasant, Storm's stork, Bornean bristlehead, rhinoceros hornbill, great slaty woodpecker, crested fireback, red-billed malkoha, common kingfisher, buffy fish owl, yellow-rumped flowerpecker, black-and-yellow, black-and-red, and green broadbill.