Gunung Mulu National Park
Important both for its high biodiversity and for its karst features, Gunung Mulu National Park, on the island of Borneo in the State of Sarawak, is the most studied tropical karst area in the world. The 52,864-ha park contains seventeen vegetation zones, exhibiting some 3,500 species of vascular plants. Its palm species are exceptionally rich, with 109 species in twenty genera noted. The park is dominated by Gunung Mulu, a 2,377 m-high sandstone pinnacle. At least 295 km of explored caves provide a spectacular sight and are home to millions of cave swiftlets and bats. The Sarawak Chamber, 600 m by 415 m and 80 m high, is the largest known cave chamber in the world.
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Gunung Mulu National Park is renowned for its biodiversity and its karst features that hold some of the largest cave systems in the world. The park lies on the island of Borneo (Sarawak state).
Gunung Mulu National Park has the largest known natural chamber or room -Sarawak chamber, found in Gua Nasib Bagus.
Over 60 mammalian species occur: they include the common gibbon, maroon leaf monkey, grey-leaf monkey, sunbear , Malayan pangolin, bearded pig, mouse-deer, sambar deer, barking deer, Savi's pygmy shrew and several bats. Also there are over 250 bird species, including all eight of Borneo's hornbill species.
Mulu is a very inaccessible area; the only practical way of getting to and from it is by air, mainly from Miri airport.
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