Silabukan Protection Forest Reserve

5°00′04″N 118°45′18″E / 5.001°N 118.755°E / 5.001; 118.755^[1]Area114 km² (44 sq mi)Established1992

The Silabukan Protection Forest Reserve is located in Sabah, Malaysia. It was established in 1992. This site is 114 km² (44 sq mi).^[2] Although 8% of Sabah's land area is included in the system of national parks, most of Sabah's orangutans do not occur in official protected areas, they are instead found in production forest landscapes in the eastern Sabah Foundation concession, which includes Silabukan Forest Reserve (McConkey et al. 2005).

Flora and fauna

In 2022, a blooming Rafflesia keithii was discovered in the reserve during a World Wildlife Fund inventory.^[3]

References

^ "Silabukan Protection Forest Reserve". protectedplanet.net.
^ World Database on Protected Areas^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Rafflesia keithii discovered in Silabukan Forest Reserve". www.nabalunews.com. Retrieved 2 November 2022.

McConkey, K., Caldecott, J. and McManus, E. 2005. Malaysia. In Caldecott, J., Miles, L. (eds) 2005. World Atlas of Great Apes and their Conservation. Prepared by the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. University of California Press, Berkeley, USA.

Protected areas of Sabah

World Heritage Site