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Borneo lowland rain forests

Gido from The Netherlands · CC BY 2.0

95% trees around it and 37 species recorded.

75Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyWild

  • trees within 3 km95%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded37

The forest around

95% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 94%Shrubland 4%Grassland 2%Bare ground 0%Trees 85%Shrubland 6%Grassland 9%Water 0%Built-up 0%Trees 84%Shrubland 8%Grassland 5%Water 3%95%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km94%
  • 3–6 km85%
  • 6–10 km84%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees94%
  • Shrubland4%
  • Grassland2%
  • Water0%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

37 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Fusarium oxysporum
Fusarium oxysporumFusarium oxysporum9 recordsKeith Weller, USDA-ARS · Public domain
Fusarium neocosmosporiellumFusarium neocosmosporiellum9 records

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

75out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 95%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 37Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking from July to August.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan29°23°308 mm
  2. Feb29°23°298 mm
  3. Mar29°23°335 mm
  4. Apr29°24°323 mm
  5. May29°24°230 mm
  6. Jun29°23°167 mm
  7. Jul29°22°120 mm
  8. Aug29°22°88 mm
  9. Sep30°23°110 mm
  10. Oct30°23°206 mm
  11. Nov29°23°303 mm
  12. Dec29°23°362 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Borneo lowland rain forests.

Ecoregion of Borneo

Borneo lowland rain forests is a forest in Brunei.

Seen from space, 95% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

37 species have been recorded around it: 0 plants, 2 fungi, 35 birds and 0 mammals.

The best time to walk is from July to August.

Primary Rainforest (10623380025)
Gido from The Netherlands · CC BY 2.0

Get there and walk

  • Tongkilingnearest town · 20 km in a straight line
  • Tjilik Riwut Airport (PKY)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 26 km in a straight line

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Borneo lowland rain forests seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

    • marked trails within 5 km
    • named and notable trees within 6 km
    • picnic sites within 4 km
    • shelters and huts within 6 km
    • viewpoints within 5 km
    • visitor centres within 6 km
    • car parks within 3 km
    • campsites within 10 km
    • places to stay within 10 km
    • restaurants and cafés within 3 km

    Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

    In our other atlases

    Around Borneo lowland rain forests.

    The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

    Islandyasthe island
    Borneo748,168 km²

    Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

    Photographs

    The forest, as people saw it.

    Dipterocarp Forest at Danum Valley (13997709808)
    Mike Prince from Bangalore, India · CC BY 2.0
    Gunung Palung Jungle
    Tom from the Netherlands · CC BY-SA 2.0
    T. Sibur from Tanjor - Low tide - Bako National Park - Sarawak - Borneo - Malaysia - panoramio
    diego_cue · CC BY-SA 3.0

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q2913503) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    Species175 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
    See these recordsgbif.org
    Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
    AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
    Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
    What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
    ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
    Sister atlasesIslandyas

    Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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