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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Environment
Emily Ding

Can plantations value more than profit? Some in Malaysia think so

A group of proboscis monkeys, native to Sabah, in Labuk Bay [Emily Ding/Al Jazeera]

Sabah, Malaysia – At the Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary on the eastern coast of Sabah in Malaysian Borneo, you have to drive along kilometres of bumpy dirt roads flanked by columns of palm oil trees before arriving at a spot where you can watch the endangered monkeys feeding up close.

The sanctuary, which has grown to some 202 hectares (500 acres) of mangroves and is home to about 200 proboscis monkeys, is owned by a palm oil company and located on about 283 hectares (700 acres) of plantation.

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