Pictures of sandakan

Images of sandakan taken by Rhett Ayers Butler. Last updated: January 2, 2023.

Oil palm vs rain forest

Borneo rainforest

Borneo orangutan at Sepilok Rehabilitation Center -- sabah_3921

Borneo orangutan at Sepilok Rehabilitation Center

Borneo orangutan at Sepilok Rehabilitation Center -- sabah_3941

Pair of orphaned orangutans

Flying dragon lizard displaying its dewlap

Borneo orangutan at Sepilok Rehabilitation Center -- sabah_3940

Tropical rainforest at twilight

Blue dragonfly in Borneo

Orangutan at Sepilok

Borneo rainforest

Orangutan peaking around a canopy tree trunk

Rainforest understory

Where an oil palm plantation meets the rainforest -- sabah_4035

Canopy walkway at the Rainforest Discovery Center

Green leaves of the rainforest canopy

Yellow seed pod of terap ikal (Artocarpus anisophyllus)

Young orphan orang-utan

Dipterocarp forest in Borneo

Green leaves of the rainforest canopy

Cicada in Borneo

Flying dragon lizard

Borneo orangutan at Sepilok Rehabilitation Center -- sabah_3939

Baby sun bear at a rehabilitation center

Borneo orangutan at Sepilok Rehabilitation Center -- sabah_3938

Oil palm plantation and forest in Borneo

Rainforest trail in RDC

Kelumpang Sarawak (Sterculia megistophylla)

Cicada in Borneo

Dipterocarp forest in Borneo

Longhorn beetles

Orangutan at Sepilok -- borneo_5424a

Borneo orangutan at Sepilok Rehabilitation Center -- sabah_3953

Borneo orangutan at Sepilok Rehabilitation Center -- sabah_3937

Oil palm plantation and forest in Borneo -- sabah_3825

Borneo ironwood or ulin (Eusideroxylon zwageri) in the Borneo rainforest

Oil palm vs rainforest

Rainforest leaves in Sabah

Kelumpang Sarawak (Sterculia megistophylla) -- sabah_4087

Borneo orangutan

Borneo orangutan at Sepilok Rehabilitation Center -- sabah_3950

Borneo rainforest

Seed pod in Borneo

Giant red flying squirrel in Borneo

Dipterocarps in the Borneo rainforest

Lantern bug [sabah_sepilok_0154]

Rotted tree trunk

Blue dragonfly in Borneo

Rainforest trail in RDC

Flying dragon lizard

Proboscis monkey [sabah_sepilok_0466]

Buttress roots of a rainforest tree

Male proboscis monkey [sabah_sepilok_0401]

Borneo orangutan -- sabah_3863

Blue dragonfly in Borneo

Malaysian sun bear [sabah_sepilok_0618]

Proboscis monkey [sabah_sepilok_0519]

Male proboscis monkey [sabah_sepilok_0405]

Pair of orphaned orangutans -- sabah_3978

Rhinoceros Hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros) in flight

House gecko on a man's hand [sabah_sepilok_0111]

Longhorn beetles

Buttress roots of a rainforest tree

Tower at the Rainforest Discovery Center

Green flying dragon displaying its orange dewlap

Orphaned orangutan playing with a lead at Sepilok Rehabilitation Center in Sabah

Mengaris (Koompassia excelsa)

Flying dragon lizard

Proboscis monkey [sabah_sepilok_0453]

Cicada in Borneo

Pair of orphaned orangutans -- sabah_3982

Proboscis monkey

Longhorn beetles

Borneo orangutan at Sepilok Rehabilitation Center -- sabah_3906

Baby sun bear at a rehabilitation center -- sabah_4064

Sun bear in Malaysian Borneo

Sun shining through haze in Borneo

Tropical rainforest at dusk

Borneo rainforest canopy -- sabah_3999

Pair of orphaned orangutans -- sabah_3966

Sun shining through haze in Borneo

Oriental dwarf kingfisher (Ceyx erithaca)

Rainforest seeds

Malaysian sun bear [sabah_sepilok_0748]

Juvenile orangutan at the Sepilok rehabilitation center [sabah_sepilok_0270]

Cicada in Borneo

Proboscis monkey [sabah_sepilok_0475]

Oriental pied-hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris)

Proboscis monkeys in a mangrove forest [sabah_sepilok_0446]

Green flying dragon displaying its orange dewlap

Male proboscis monkey

Male proboscis monkey [sabah_sepilok_0346]

Sun shining through haze in Borneo

Long-tailed macaque in the canopy

Oil palm vs rain forest -- sabah_4037

Borneo orangutan at Sepilok Rehabilitation Center -- sabah_3930

Oriental dwarf kingfisher (Ceyx erithaca)

Pair of orphaned orangutans -- sabah_3989

Borneo orangutan at Sepilok Rehabilitation Center -- sabah_3898

Canopy walkway at the Rainforest Discovery Center

Sabah rainforest tree

Pair of orphaned orangutans -- sabah_3980

Oil palm and rainforest [sabah_sepilok_0214]

Green flying dragon displaying its orange dewlap

Saga (Adenanthera pavonina)

Blue and yellow weevil [sabah_sepilok_0013]

Orphaned orangutan at Sepilok

Red-naped trogon

Green flying dragon displaying its orange dewlap

Proboscis monkey jumping

Dipterocarp forest in Borneo

Long-tailed macaque in the canopy

Sun shining through haze in Borneo

Dipterocarps in the Borneo rainforest -- sabah_4109

Borneo rainforest -- sabah_4140

House gecko on a man's hand

Proboscis monkeys in a mangrove forest [sabah_sepilok_0449]

Rhinoceros Hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros) in flight

Blue and yellow weevil [sabah_sepilok_0024]

Baby sun bear at a rehabilitation center -- sabah_4063

Sun shining through haze in Borneo

Red-naped trogon

Yellow seed pod of terap ikal (Artocarpus anisophyllus) a species in the Moraceae family

Green flying dragon displaying its orange dewlap

Canopy tower at the RDC

Orangutan feeding on string beans [sabah_sepilok_0209]

Oil palm plantation and rainforest border

Longhorn beetles

Proboscis monkey [sabah_sepilok_0455]

Red-naped trogon

Male proboscis monkey [sabah_sepilok_0349]

Orange fruit in Borneo

Red-naped trogon

Blue and yellow weevil [sabah_sepilok_0026]

Twilight jungle

Rainforest seeds

Canopy walkway at the Rainforest Discovery Center

Malaysian sun bear [sabah_sepilok_0743]

Rhinoceros Hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros) in flight

Kelumpang Sarawak (Sterculia megistophylla) flowers

Where an oil palm plantation meets the rainforest

Rotting tree stump

Borneo orangutan at Sepilok Rehabilitation Center -- sabah_3929

Oil palm plantation and rainforest border [sabah_sepilok_0694]

Partially eaten fruit on the rainforest floor

Long-tailed macaque in the canopy

Proboscis monkeys jumping

Blue dragonfly in Borneo

Canopy walkway at the Rainforest Discovery Center

Ladder down from a canopy walkway at the RDC

Proboscis monkeys in a mangrove forest

Long-tailed macaque in the canopy

White shield bug

Sun seen through haze from fires in Borneo

Sepilok rainforest

Long-tailed macaques fighting in the canopy

Pink seed pods or fruit

Male proboscis monkey [sabah_sepilok_0370]

Strangler fig in Borneo

Kelumpang Sarawak (Sterculia megistophylla)

Strangler fig in Borneo

Orangutan feeding on string beans

Ashy tailorbird

Rotting tree stump

Rhinoceros Hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros) in flight

Green flying dragon displaying its orange dewlap

Seed pod in Borneo

Orangutan at Sepilok -- borneo_5414

View of the rainforest from a lodge in Borneo

Understory plant

Dipterocarp forest in Borneo

Mengaris (Koompassia excelsa) tree

Buttress roots of a rainforest tree

Mengaris (Koompassia excelsa)

Borneo rainforest -- sabah_4042

Borneo orangutan -- sabah_3856

Sun shining through haze in Borneo

White shield bug [sabah_sepilok_0168]

Cicada in Borneo

Orangutan at Sepilok -- borneo_5401

Borneo rainforest canopy -- sabah_3993

Yellow seed pod of terap ikal (Artocarpus anisophyllus)

Borneo rainforest

Oil palm and rainforest

Sun shining through haze in Borneo

Borneo orangutan at Sepilok Rehabilitation Center -- sabah_3947

Borneo rainforest

Rainforest fern

Sabah rainforest understory

Borneo orangutan at Sepilok Rehabilitation Center -- sabah_3946

Kelumpang Sarawak (Sterculia megistophylla) flowers

Borneo orangutan at Sepilok Rehabilitation Center -- sabah_3949

Rainforest palm fron

Oil palm plantation and rainforest border [sabah_sepilok_0706]

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