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Borneo peat swamp forests

Ruanda Agung Sugardiman/AusAID · CC BY 2.0

34% trees around it and 44 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km34%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded44

The forest around

34% 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 62%Mangroves 14%Shrubland 10%Grassland 6%Water 8%Built-up 1%Trees 30%Mangroves 56%Shrubland 3%Grassland 6%Water 3%Built-up 1%Trees 31%Mangroves 45%Shrubland 0%Grassland 1%Water 22%Trees 33%Mangroves 22%Grassland 1%Water 44%34%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km62%
  • 1–3 km30%
  • 3–6 km31%
  • 6–10 km33%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees30%
  • Mangroves56%
  • Shrubland3%
  • Grassland6%
  • Water3%
  • Built-up1%

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

44 species recorded.

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

Agrostophyllum trifidum
Agrostophyllum trifidumAgrostophyllum trifidum2 recordsRudolf Schlechter · Public domain
Cymbidium finlaysonianum
Cymbidium finlaysonianumCymbidium finlaysonianum2 recordsKENPEI · CC BY-SA 3.0
Coelogyne pallidiflavensCoelogyne pallidiflavens2 records
Sageraea lanceolataSageraea lanceolata2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

51out of 100

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

  • 34%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 44Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking from February to March.

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

  1. Jan28°25°285 mm
  2. Feb28°25°143 mm
  3. Mar28°25°155 mm
  4. Apr29°26°212 mm
  5. May29°27°241 mm
  6. Jun29°26°258 mm
  7. Jul29°26°249 mm
  8. Aug29°26°229 mm
  9. Sep29°26°253 mm
  10. Oct29°26°312 mm
  11. Nov29°26°321 mm
  12. Dec28°26°333 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Borneo peat swamp forests.

Ecoregion in Borneo

Borneo peat swamp forests is a forest in Brunei.

Seen from space, 34% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

44 species have been recorded around it: 4 plants, 0 fungi, 40 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Agrostophyllum trifidum, Cymbidium finlaysonianum and Coelogyne pallidiflavens.

The best time to walk is from February to March.

Peat Forest Swamp (10712654875)
Ruanda Agung Sugardiman/AusAID · CC BY 2.0

Get there and walk

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 peat swamp 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

  • 4restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 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

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 peat swamp 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.

Peakyas11 mountains within 25 km
Bukit Patoi226 m · 17 kmBukit Peradayan83 m · 20 kmBukit Kindana37 m · 20 kmBukit Cowie11 m · 22 kmBrunei Bluff1 m · 22 kmJajak Ridge88 m · 22 kmBukit Tempayan Pisang46 m · 23 kmBukit Sebulu25 km

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Other forests nearby.

Borneo peat swamp forests

Brunei

  • 51Forestyas Score
  • 34%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 44Species

Peradayan Forest Recreation Park

Brunei · 17 km

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 83%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 278Species

See the guide

Batu Apoi Forest Reserve

Brunei · 33 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 143Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q4946090) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species164 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 atlasesPeakyas, Islandyas

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

The family

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