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The Borneo lowland rain forests cover an area of 428,438 square kilometers, about 57% of Borneo's land area. They cover most of the island below 1000 meters elevation. Borneo is divided between Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei, and the lowland rainforests extend into all three countries. [3]
In the 1980s and 1990s, the forests of Borneo were levelled at a rate unprecedented in human history, burned, logged and cleared, and commonly replaced with agriculture. The deforestation continued through the 2000s at a slower pace, alongside the expansion of palm oil plantations. Half of the annual global tropical timber procurement is from ...
The higher elevations of Borneo are relatively inaccessible, and subject to less logging and conversion to agriculture than the lowland rain forests. The montane forests were less affected by the forest fires of 1997-8 that damaged so much of Borneo's lowland forest. [1] Approximately three-quarters of the montane forests are still relatively ...
Footbridge to the tropical rainforest in Danum Valley Danum Valley Conservation Area is a 438 square kilometres tract of relatively undisturbed lowland dipterocarp forest in Sabah , Malaysia . It has an extensive diversity of tropical flora and fauna, including such species as the rare Bornean orangutans , gibbons , mousedeer , clouded leopards ...
Borneo (/ ˈ b ɔːr n i oʊ / is the third-largest island in the world, with an area of 748,168 km 2 (288,869 sq mi), and population of 23,053,723 (2020 national censuses). [1] [2] [3] Situated at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, it is one of the Greater Sunda Islands, located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and east of Sumatra.
There are two opposing theories about the vegetation of Sundaland, particularly during the last glacial period: (1) that there was a continuous savanna corridor connecting modern mainland Asia to the islands of Java and Borneo, and (2) that the vegetation of Sundaland was instead dominated by tropical rainforest, with only small, discontinuous ...
It is a lowland rainforest covering an area of 212 square miles (550 km 2). [ 3 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The park area is in the upper region of the eastern part of Brunei. The southern part consists of a hilly region with mountains rising to a height of 1,800 metres (5,900 ft) and the lowlands are in the northern slopes.
Arts and Culture of Borneo. Singapore: ESun Tree. ISBN 9810027133. Sellato, Bernard (1994). Nomads of the Borneo Rainforest. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 9780585249926. Sellato, Bernard (2001). Forest, resources and people in Bulungan: Elements for a history of settlement, trade, and social dynamics in Borneo, 1880–2000. Bogor ...