Kudos to this unprecedented effort!
Excerpts from FMT:
Sabah’s largest group of orangutan are getting a forested lifeline – a wildlife corridor across oil palm plantations that will link a forest reserve to a wildlife reserve.
The project, to be carried out over five years, will entail the planting of fast-growing native pioneer species of trees and fig plants. It was inaugurated with a tree planting ceremony earlier this week, with the planting of more than 300 tree seedlings, the Borneo Post reported.
The Tabin wildlife reserve, north-east of Lahad Datu, is considered to be the largest wildlife reserve in Malaysia, occupying about 300,000 acres in the centre of the Dent Peninsula.
Surrounded by oil palm plantations, it is home to an estimated 1,200 orangutans, the largest population of the animal in the eastern lowlands, the Borneo Post reported.
It also houses other endangered animals including approximately 350 Borneo pygmy elephants, 50 Banteng cattle, and 40 Sunda clouded leopards.
The wildlife corridor is being carried out by plantation group Kuala Lumpur Kepong Bhd (KLK) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Malaysia.