Kinabalu National Park Animals
The wealth of insect life in kinabalu is astounding.
Kinabalu national park animals. It is home to the highest mountain mount kinabalu located between new guinea and the himalayas. 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. On this private day tour you will learn all about this outstanding natural preserve with its thousands of species of flora fauna and bird life. Visiting mount kinabalu deramakot forest reserve the kinabatangan river and tabin wildlife reserve it offers the very best of wild borneo.
Kinabalu national park is a 754 square kilometer park located in sabah malaysia on the island of borneo. Kinabalu is ecologically rich. The steep mountainsides with poor soil are not suitable for farming or for the timber industry so the habitats and animal life of kinabalu remain largely intact with about a third of the original habitat now degraded. If you dash headlong up and down gunung kinabalu and then depart as many visitors do you ll miss out on many of the national park s riches.
A unique and comprehensive exploration by day and by night of borneo s wildlife including endemic birds and mammals and a host of rarely seen nocturnal species. Mount kinabalu national park has over 5 000 different species of plants and animals including 326 bird species and over 100 mammal species. Kinabalu park was established in 1964 and the nearby mountains were protected as the crocker range national park in 1984. Located on the west coast of sabah malaysian borneo kinabalu national park covers an area of 754.
Its diverse terrains have spawned an incredible variety of plants and animals and you are far more likely to appreciate them by walking some of the lower trails see around the park headquarters at. Kinabalu was designated a national park in 1964 and contains some of the world s most important biological flora and fauna. Thousands of species of beetles including large rhinoceros beetles chalcosoma spp are common in the park. One of the most remarkable coleopterans found in the area is the trilobite beetle duliticola spp who s female keeps its strange larval shape for life.
Kinabalu national park was the first unesco world heritage site. Mount kinabalu standing at 4 095 2 metres tall is the highest mountain on the island of borneo and the 20th most prominent peak in the world. Kinabalu national park also the centre of plant diversity for south east asia the park boasts more than 5 000 vascular plant species and has no shortage of fauna as well being home to some 90 lowland mammal species and many others.