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Maludam National Park |
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Area: 43,147 ha
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Description
The Maludam National Park is located in Sri Aman Division, in the Maludam Peninsula. The
entire area is a low-lying, flat swamp.
The forest in the Park is entirely peat swamp. It
encompasses all the described phases of the peat swamp formation.
Peat swamp forests cover about 10% of the land area of Sarawak. Borneo's peat swamp forests are amongst the most highly developed in the world, and the Maludam Peninsula is the largest single patch of peat swamp forest in Sarawak and Brunei.
The Maludam National Park is critical for protecting the only viable population of the red banded langur (Presbytis melalophos cruciger) remaining in the world today. This species is one of the world's most beautiful monkeys. It occurs only in Borneo, and is restricted entirely to the peat swamp forests of the Sri Aman and Sarikei Divisions of Sarawak.
The Maludam National Park also carries a population of proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus), one of only about five potentially viable populations in Sarawak. There is also a significant population of silvered langurs (Presbytis cristata). Diversity of other mammals is low.
Bird watching in Maludam can be rewarding, with sightings of spectacular birds such as black, pied and rhinoceros hornbills, blue-eared and stork-billed kingfishers, green imperial pigeons, slender-billed crows, greater racket-tailed drongos and, occasionally, the rare Storm's storks.
This park will be open to visitors sometime in the future.
For further enquiry, please contact us