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Together, they made up 56% of Malaysia's 8.12Mha (28%) loss in tree cover during that period. [20] Deforestation is a major problem for fauna such as tigers, as the forest is cut to make room for plantations, [21] mostly for palm oil and other cash crops. The orangutan population has dropped by 40% in the last 20 years. [when?
This is a list of animals found in Malaysia. Malaysia is a humid country, [1] with rainforests hosting a wide array of animal species. There are around 361 mammal species, [2] 250 reptile species, [3] and 150 frog species found in Malaysia. [4] Approximately 677 bird species are found on Peninsular Malaysia alone (and 694 for Malaysia).
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Malaysia. There are 313 mammal species in Malaysia, of which six are critically endangered, seventeen are endangered, twenty-eight are vulnerable, and one is near threatened. Every mammal in Malaysia belongs to the subclass Theria, and the infraclass Eutheria, as all are placental mammals.
Endemic fauna of Malaysia (3 C, 239 P) F. Fish of Malaysia (1 C, 52 P) I. Invertebrates of Malaysia (1 C, 50 P) K. Fauna of Mount Kinabalu (11 P) M. Mammals of ...
Kinabalu Park (Malay: Taman Kinabalu), established as one of the first national parks of Malaysia in 1964, is Malaysia's first World Heritage Site designated by UNESCO in December 2000 for its "outstanding universal values" and the role as one of the most important biological sites in the world with more than 4,500 species of flora and fauna, including 326 bird and around 100 mammal species ...
Four of these were megachiropterans, Pteropus vampyrus, Rousettus amplexicaudatus, Rousettus sp and Eonycteris spelaea, all of which remain extant species in Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia. The provisional list of mammals of Borneo (sensu Lord Medway, Payne et al., Corbet and Hill, Koopman, and Wilson and Reeder) are listed below. There are ...
The environment of Malaysia is the biotas and geologies that constitute the natural environment of Malaysia. Malaysia's ecology is megadiverse, with a biodiverse range of flora and fauna found in various ecoregions throughout the country. Tropical rainforests encompass between 59% and 70% of Malaysia's total land area, of which 11.6% is pristine.
Endemic fauna of Borneo (2 C, 268 P) E. ... Pages in category "Endemic fauna of Malaysia" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 239 total.