Danum Valley, Sabah, Malaysia

Danum Valley Conservation Area is a 438 square kilometers wide forest in Sabah, Malaysia. It has a broad decent variety of tropical flora and fauna. It includes rare species like East Sumatran rhinoceros, Bornean orangutans, gibbons, mousedeer, clouded leopards and more than 270 bird species. Activities like wilderness treks, swimming, Bird watching, night jungle tours and journeys to close by logging destinations and timber factories.

The zone holds special status as in before it turned into a conservation region. There were no human settlements inside the region, implying that hunting, logging and other human obstruction was non existent making the territory unique and interesting. It is overseen by Yayasan Sabah for protection, research, education, and habitat restoration training purposes. There have been recommendations to choose the site as a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Danum Valley Conservation Area is filled with dipterocarp tress, with the shade arriving at a stature of more than 70 meters in certain spots. About 90% of the Conservation Area is named dipterocarp woodland, with the rest 10% being low canopy, sub-montane backwoods for the most part found on Mount Danum in the core of the Conservation Area.

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