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

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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