Delegates and Malaysian Nature Society in the International Hornbill Expedition 2013 Photos courtesy of Malaysian Nature Society
According to MNS, the contiguous Belum and Temengor forests are approximately 130 million years old, older than the Amazon and the Congo, and subsequently much more complex in their biodiversity. They support populations of large mammals and extensive stand of mixed dipterocarp forests of about 300,000 hectares, almost four times the size of Singapore, in one of the least accessible or developed areas of the Peninsula.