Sent:24 Jan 2017
Arrived: 09 Feb 2017
Kinabalu Park
UNESCO site
Date of Inscription: 2000
Located in the State of Sabah, Malaysia, on the northern end
of the island of Borneo, Kinabalu Park World Heritage property covers 75,370
ha. Dominated by Mount Kinabalu (4,095m), the highest mountain between the Himalayas
and New Guinea, it holds a distinctive position for the biota of Southeast
Asia. Geologically, Kinabalu Park is a
granite intrusion formed 15 million years ago and thrust upward one million
years ago by tectonic movements and shaped by forces that continue to define
its landscape. Despite its geological youth it is exceptionally high in species
with living relics of natural vegetation remaining, over 93% of the Park area.
The altitudinal range of the property, 152m – 4,095m,
presents a wide array of habitats from rich tropical lowland and hill
rainforest (35% of the park) to tropical montane forest (37%), and sub-alpine
forest and scrub at the highest elevations. Ultramafic (serpentine) rocks cover
about 16% of the park and have vegetation specific to this substrate. The
property has been identified as a Centre of Plant Diversity for Southeast Asia;
it contains representatives from at least half of all Borneo’s plant species
and is exceptionally rich in species with elements from the Himalayas, China,
Australia, Malaysia, and pan tropical floras. With records of half of all
Borneo’s birds, mammals and amphibian species and two-thirds of all Bornean
reptiles the property is both species-rich and an important centre for
endemism.
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