National parks of Malaysia National parks of Malaysia Bako National Park, established in 1957, is the oldest national park in Sarawak, eastern Malaysia, on the island of Borneo. It covers an area of 27.27 square kilometres at the tip of the Muara Tebas peninsula at the mouth of the Bako and Kuching Rivers. It is some 37 kilometers by road from Kuching. Millions of years of erosion have created a coastline of steep cliffs, rocky headlands and stretches of white, sandy bays. Wave erosion at the base of the cliffs has carved many of the rocky headlands into fantastically shaped sea arches and seastacks with colored patterns formed by iron deposition. The park can only be reached by a 20-minute boat ride from Kampung Bako and is often visited as a day-trip from Kuching. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bako National Park"
Batang Ai National Park is located in the Sri Aman Division of Sarawak, in eastern Malaysia on the island of Borneo. It is located in Lubok Antu,some 250 kilometers east of Kuching. The park covers an area of 240 square kilometers of extensive tropical rainforest with a number or rare and protected animals, surrounding the 24 square kilometer artificial lake created by the Batang Ai hydroelectric reservior. The park was proclaimed in 1991, and has become increasingly popular with locals and tourists despite the lack of facilities. ...more on Wikipedia about "Batang Ai National Park"
Crocker Range Park was established in 1984, although the area had previously been under protection as a forest reserve. It covers the north-south Crocker Range, of 1200-1800 meter mountains in Sabah, east Malaysia on the island of Borneo, which separate the western coastal plain with the rest of the state. The boundaries of the park have been surveyed, but no facilities exist at present for visitors. ...more on Wikipedia about "Crocker Range Park"
Gunung Mulu National Park in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, on the border with Brunei is a World Heritage Site that encompasses incredible caves and karst formations in a mountainous equatorial rainforest setting. The park is famous for its caves and the expeditions that have been mounted to explore them and their surrounding rainforest, most notably the Royal Geographic Expedition of 1977 - 1978, which saw over 100 scientists in the field for 15 months. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gunung Mulu National Park"
Kinabalu Park, otherwise known as Taman Negara Kinabalu in Malay, is a national park located in Sabah, east Malaysia on the island of Borneo. It covers an area of 754 square kilometers surrounding Mount Kinabalu (4095 meters), the highest mountain in southeast Asia. The park headquarters is 88 kilometers from Kota Kinabalu. It's an ASEAN and World Heritage site. ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Kinabalu Park"
Malaysia has a number of national parks but most of them are the de facto state parks. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of national parks of Malaysia"
Maludam National Park is located in the Sri Aman Division of Sarawak, in eastern Malaysia on the island of Borneo. It is located in the Maludam Peninsula and consists entirely of low-lying, flat peat swamp forest. Such forets cover about 10% of the total land area of Sarawak, but have mostly been exploited for timber and plantation agriculture. The Maludam National Park encompasses the largest single patch of peat swamp forest remaining in Sarawak and Brunei. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maludam National Park" This article is made for www.shortopedia.com
Tabin Wildlife Refuge is a nature preserve in Sabah, eastern Malaysia, on the island of Borneo. It was created in 1984 to preserve Sabah’s disappearing wild animals. Occupying a large part of the peninsula forming the northern arm of Darvel Bay, it is located 48 kilometers east of Lahad Datu. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tabin Wildlife Reserve"
Taman Negara was established in Malaysia in 1938/ 1939 as the King George V National Park. It was renamed to Taman Negara after Independence, which literally means "national park" in Malay. The total area of Taman Negara is 4,343 km². ...more on Wikipedia about "Taman Negara"
Tunku Abdul Rahman Park was established in 1974, just offshore Kota Kinabalu, in Sabah, east Malaysia on the island of Borneo. It comprises of 49 square kilometers of mostly ocean, coral reefs and five islands. It is named after the first Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tunku Abdul Rahman Park"
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