Research on Danum Valley has discovered a bewildering variety of flora and an impressive menagerie of Sabah’s lowland fauna, including such rare and endangered species.
It is one of the world’s great storehouses of genetic diversity. It is one of the best places in the world to observe wild orangutans in their natural habitat, and visitors who spend a few days at the lodge have at least even odds of making a sighting. Natural riches include 200 tree species per hectare; 275 bird species; and 110 species of mammals including great rarities such as the Sumatra rhino, Wallace’s flying frog and the beautiful clouded leopard.
The forest here is thick that it has never been settled by humans permanently.
Danum Valley is very popular with bird-watchers from around the world, who come here to bag a whole variety of Southeast Asian rainforest species including the great argus pheasant, crested fireback pheasant, several species of hornbill, blue-headed pitta and Borneo bristlehead, among many others.
Danum valley
