Ulu Baram is a remote area of

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. It is an encased alluvial plain, created in part by the Baram River. The forest is certified for logging. Most of Ulu Baram belongs to the traditional area of the Orang Ulu (Upriver People), a collective name that includes the Penan people (about 10,000 overall), Kayan, Kenyah,

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, Punan and Kelabit. There has been large-scale logging and subsequent creation of

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or monoculture

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(used for paper) estates within the surrounding area, which continues despite the protracted protests of the indigenous inhabitants who claim these commercial activities are encroaching into their ancestral land and destroying their livelihood. It is thought that this part of

may be the prime habitat for the very rare Hose's civet (''Diplogale hosei''), a small carnivore

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to the

montane Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains. The alpine climate in these regions strongly affects the ecosystem because temperatures lapse rate, fall as elevation increases, causing the ecosystem to stratify. This stratification is ...

forests of northern

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.Mathai, J. (2010). Hose's Civet: Borneo's mysterious carnivore. ''Nature Watch'' 18/4:2-8.

References

External links

Information about Penan people living in Ulu Baram

News Archive for Indigenous Concerns in Sarawak, including Ulu Baram

Website on Bario, Kelabit Highlands, Ulu Baram
Geography of Sarawak Plains of Asia {{Sarawak-geo-stub