How planting fig trees could make Sabah, in Malaysian Borneo, Asia’s top wildlife tourism destination and help restore its forests

  • Unlike an African safari, wildlife tourism in Borneo requires a jungle trek – and luck. But there’s a way to draw animals: plant the fig trees that they feed on

  • Fig planting around resorts would bring the animals to the tourists, while planting fig tree ‘corridors’ would let animals reach pockets of jungle, experts say

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