There are remains of a Javanese World War 11 fortification. This area is good for bird lovers. By road from Palembang or Tanjung Karang or from the Java Sumatra ferry port at Bakauheni. The reserve area includes most of the south western tip of Sumatra totaling 365,000 hectares, at a height of 1781 metres. There are turtle rookeries on the western beach, Good forests both at lowlands and mountains in the northern end of the reserve.
Wildlife includes gibbons, elephants, tapirs, pigs, deer and the occasional tiger.
The reserve start at sea level and reaches 1,223 metres in an area of 5 hectares. Coffee plantations occupy much of the lowland and thick forests. The steeper parts include precipitous headlands. Sukamade beach is a fine turtle rookery of its kind. Two species of the parasitic Rafflesia flower are fauna in Meru Betiri, which is the last refuge for the nearly extinct Java tiger.