Borneo Tropical Rainforest

Mon, 12 May 2025 23:19:41 +0000

Borneo is huge. After Greenland and New Guinea, it’s the third-largest island on the planet – and two thirds of it belongs to Indonesia. Straddling the equator, and split politically by Indonesia, Brunei and Malaysia, Borneo sustains one of the richest ecosystems on the globe. Borneo – the biggest island in the Malay archipelago – is made up of dense, often impenetrable jungle and mountains surrounded by swampy coasts fringed with mangrove forests.
Sandwiched between the South China and Java Seas, Borneo’s stable, moist tropical climate has ensured that its lowland rainforests are packed with some of the world’s most biodiverse collections of flowering plants, birds and animals.
Borneo Tropical Rainforest also provides homes for a vast number of consumers including the clouded leopard, sun bear, Bengal Tiger, Musang, Dawn Bat, Jambu Fruit Dove, King Cobra, Orangutan, and Silvery Gibbon among many others. The Jambu Fruit Dove and Red-Shanked Douc Langur are herbivores, eating only producers. The Musang, Orangutan, and Wagler's Pit Viper are carnivores, eating both plants and animals alike.

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