Kinabatangan is a town located in Sandakan Division, in the east of Sabah, Malaysia on the island of Borneo. Its population was estimated to be around 59,000 in 1991. Sandakan Division is an administrative division of Sabah, east Malaysia, on the island of Borneo. ... Jump to: navigation, search State motto: Sabah Maju Jaya Capital Kota Kinabalu Governor Ahmadshah Abdullah Chief Minister Hj. ... Jump to: navigation, search Borneo (politically divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei) is the third largest island in the world. ...
Economic activities are centered around oil palm plantations, forestry and wood-based industries. Jump to: navigation, search Species Elaeis guineensis Elaeis oleifera The oil palms (Elaeis) coomprise two species of the Arecaceae, or palm family. ...
Nearby Kinabatangan River is an area with typical tropical rainforest lowland vegetations and ecosystems. The area is wet and humid and the swampy lowlands are home for Borneo's indigineous proboscis monkey. The Kinabatangan River is the second longest River in Malaysia. ... Jump to: navigation, search Rainforest on Fatu-Hiva, Marquesas Islands A rainforest is a forested biome with high annual rainfall due to the Intertropical convergence zone. ... Binomial name Nasalis larvatus (Wurmb, 1787) The Proboscis Monkey (Nasalis larvatus, monotypic in genus Nasalis) is a reddish-brown arboreal leaf-eating monkey, found only in the coastal areas of Borneo and the Mentawai Islands west of Sumatra, in coastal mangrove swamps and riverine forests. ...
The Kinabatangan River (Sungai Kinabatangan) is located in Sabah, eastern Malaysia, on the island of Borneo.
Kinabatangan is known for its remarkable wildlife and fascinating habitats such as limestone caves at Gomantong hill, dryland dipterocarp forests, riverine forest, freshwater swamp forest, oxbow lakes and salty mangrove swamps near the coast.
In 1997, 270 square kilometres of the lower Kinabatangan floodplain was declared a protected area, and in 2001 this designation was upgraded to that of "bird sanctuary", largely through the efforts of the World Wildlife Fund for Nature.
Kinabatangan is one of the most exceptional areas, but was long threatened by logging and land clearance.
The Kinabatangan River is one of Borneo’s longest and most majestic rivers, originating in south west of Sabah, it flows for 560 kilometers (347 miles) through eastern Sabah to the Sulu Sea on the east coast.
The lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary was announced as a “Gift to the Earth” by the Chief Minister of Sabah on November 16, 1999 and also giving its commitment to fully gazette and protect the 26,000 hectares of wetlands as wildlife sanctuary.
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