F Borneo Crocker Range
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- Created on: 17-10-19 20:51
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- Crocker Range (Biosphere Borneo)
- What is it?
- The largest protected area of Sabah on the island of Borneo
- it stretches 120km north and south and 40km east and west (350k ha)
- Highest temp is 32c and lowest is 20c
- annual rainfall is 3000mm
- Value
- home to endangered species
- clouded leopard (fewer than 10k left)
- preserves endangered plant and animal species
- clouded leopard (fewer than 10k left)
- home to endangered species
- How areas are managed
- core area of 3 legally protected forest reserves
- covered by natural vegetation
- strictly for research projects, environmental education and tourism
- 6 permanent plots measuring 50 miles by 10 miles that are for ecological monitoring.
- contain more than 300 plant species, 101 mammals, 259 birds and 47 reptiles
- in buffer and transition zones, aprox. 400 communities as well as palm oil and rubber plantations being observed carefully
- core area of 3 legally protected forest reserves
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