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Viewing platforms and Canopy Walkways are up to almost 30-metre high in the Danum Valley Conservation Area. The Rainforest Canopy Walkway is located in Danum Valley Conservation Area which is situated on the north coast of the island of Borneo.
The Canopy Walkway, suspended almost 30 metres above the forest floor is roughly 300 meter long and it provides multiple viewing platforms, spanning and pedestrian access to the forest canopy.
The Walkway was designed to be “Tree Friendly” meaning – no rigging of steel cables directly onto the trees.
Friday, 5th October 2007
@Canopy Walkway, Taman Negara, Pahang
Nikon F-601•Nikkor 20mm f/2.8 AF•Samsung 400 (expired)
The canopy walkway is the world’s longest 500 metres, strung up to 40 metres high above the forest floor. It was built by the staff of the Department of Wildlife & National Parks. For safety, every inch of it is checked every morning. The ropes have a minimum snapping strength of 5 tons and the steel cables more than 10 tons. The trees are protected with wooden spacers fitted between the bark and the cables and ropes: no nails have been driven into the trees. Every measure has been taken to protect the health of the trees and the visitors.
When you don't like heights going up onto a canopy walkway is quite a challenge, so it;s good to know that the platform that you're standing on is attached to a nice strong tree. As I was looking at the tree, I thought that a few close up shots of the bark would make an interesting 'panoramic'
I visited the UBC Botanical Garden in the weekend. This is a nice place to go for families.
This is the canopy walkway in the garden.
The 308-metre walkway, which reaches heights in excess of 17.5 metres, enables visitors and researchers to experience the unique biodiversity of a Pacific Coastal Rainforest canopy, which include s treetop mosses, lichens, birds, insects and other invertebrates, and offers a "bird's eye" view of the forest canopy.
The little boy right after the girl in the picture shouted to his dad at the end of walkway. "I am scared! dad"
His dad comforted him and finally he made it by himself. His dad said to him "You are the best!"
Viewing platforms and Canopy Walkways are up to almost 30-metre high in the Danum Valley Conservation Area. The Rainforest Canopy Walkway is located in Danum Valley Conservation Area which is situated on the north coast of the island of Borneo.
The Canopy Walkway, suspended almost 30 metres above the forest floor is roughly 300 meter long and it provides multiple viewing platforms, spanning and pedestrian access to the forest canopy.
The Walkway was designed to be “Tree Friendly” meaning – no rigging of steel cables directly onto the trees.
The understructural support of the elevated Canopy Walkway at the Galien River County Park, Berrien County, Michigan.
Friday, 5th October 2007
@Canopy Walkway, Taman Negara, Pahang
Nikon F-601•Nikkor 20mm f/2.8 AF•Samsung 400 (expired)
All forest monkeys in Ghana have been very hard hit by the scale of rainforest destruction and bushmeat poaching. Primates have always formed a part of the Ghanaian diet, hunting monkeys today is illegal, but they are still frequently targeted by poachers, using shotguns. With so little forest remaining, poachers have to venture deep into the few protected areas in search of prey. Monkeys are now a very rare sight in most forests, in the Ankasa Conservation Area in the southwest of Ghana, despite the rainforest being almost pristine, you're unlikely to catch more than a glimpse of a monkey. There the few monkeys that remain still hide or flee when they encounter people.
Here however, around the canopy walkway in Kakum National Park, the monkeys that have survived are it seems well protected. The canopy walkway is one of Ghana's major tourist attractions, so the Wildlife Division need to ensure that the wildlife at least in this part of Kakum is properly protected. Even so seeing monkeys from the walkway is still not easy, when moving through the forest they instinctively try to keep hidden under the canopy, to avoid their main natural predator the crowned eagle. During my morning visit to the canopy, I caught only the briefest glimpse of an unidentified monkey, that clearly didn't want to show itself.
As the day heats up all wildlife not just monkeys becomes less active, and more tourists come up to the walkway, causing a certain amount of disturbance, that doesn't help with wildlife viewing.
They can't hide all of the time, in the late afternoon they start to become a bit more active and there's then a reasonable chance of seeing them, once the noisier tourists have left the walkway.
The lesser spot-nosed monkey is one of the more common monkeys in Ghana, because they're not dependent on primary rainforest, even so the few individuals I saw from the walkway were the only ones I saw during my Ghanaian trip.
It is also possible to see Lowe's monkey, olive colobus and the Geoffroy's or white-thighed black and white colobus from the walkway, however the latter species is still pretty rare in Kakum. The beautiful roloway monkey (Cercopithecus (diana) roloway) used to occur in Kakum but is now likely extinct in the park, it's thought that only one tiny population now survives in Ghana in the Kwabre Forest on the border with Cote d'Ivoire, it is on the brink of complete extinction. The Miss Waldron's red colobus (Piliocolobus (badius) waldroni) may also have once occurred in Kakum but this monkey is likely completely extinct, due to loss of habitat but primarily bushmeat hunting.
Friday, 5th October 2007
@Canopy Walkway, Taman Negara, Pahang
Nikon F-601•Nikkor 20mm f/2.8 AF•Samsung 400 (expired)
Viewing platforms and Canopy Walkways are up to almost 30-metre high in the Danum Valley Conservation Area. The Rainforest Canopy Walkway is located in Danum Valley Conservation Area which is situated on the north coast of the island of Borneo.
The Canopy Walkway, suspended almost 30 metres above the forest floor is roughly 300 meter long and it provides multiple viewing platforms, spanning and pedestrian access to the forest canopy.
The Walkway was designed to be “Tree Friendly” meaning – no rigging of steel cables directly onto the trees.
I visited the UBC Botanical Garden in the weekend. This is a nice place to go for families.
In the picture it is the canopy walkway of the garden.
The 308-metre walkway, which reaches heights in excess of 17.5 metres, enables visitors and researchers to experience the unique biodiversity of a Pacific Coastal Rainforest canopy, which include s treetop mosses, lichens, birds, insects and other invertebrates, and offers a "bird's eye" view of the forest canopy.
Viewing platforms and Canopy Walkways are up to almost 30-metre high in the Danum Valley Conservation Area. The Rainforest Canopy Walkway is located in Danum Valley Conservation Area which is situated on the north coast of the island of Borneo.
The Canopy Walkway, suspended almost 30 metres above the forest floor is roughly 300 meter long and it provides multiple viewing platforms, spanning and pedestrian access to the forest canopy.
The Walkway was designed to be “Tree Friendly” meaning – no rigging of steel cables directly onto the trees.
As a further attraction, but also designed for environmental education and research, the first canopy walk way in an European National Park was initiated in the year 2005. The canopy walk way is in the south eastern part of Hainich. A close-to-nature forest with about 10 tree species and many different structures in the closer surrounding can be experienced by a walk in the tree tops.
First Record of the Rough-necked Monitor Varanus rudicollis from Penang, Malaysia
RAY HAMILTON
In Malaysia, the known distribution of the rough-necked monitor Varanus rudicollis is poorly documented, with relatively few reliable localities scattered throughout Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia (Bennett & Liat, 1995). As far as it can be determined, there are no records of its occurrence on the island of Penang, Malaysia.
On 29th April 2008 a single specimen of V.rudicollis was observed and photographed on the island of Penang, Malaysia. The sub-adult lizard was seen at rest in a tree, approximately ten metres off the ground during mid afternoon. The lizard remained at rest in the same position during the ten minutes under observation. Apart from a slight adjustment of the upper body position the lizard was apparently unconcerned by our presence nearby. The canopy walkway in which the observation was made is at the edge of the developed area and bordered by well forested jungle, with mature trees and thick vegetation. The Penang Hill Canopy Walkway is located 1.7 km from the upper Penang Hill Railway Station, at an approximate elevation of 710 metres above sea level at the summit of Penang Hill (Bukit Bendera), Malaysia.