My god what a long journey. We are staying at a hotel near the sanctuary, which is gorgeous, the room looking over beautiful gardens and a river, fish and turtles everywhere (cool). Then onto the sanctuary after lunch. Sepilok Rehabilitation Centre in the Malaysian Sabah District of North Borneo was founded in 1964, to rehabilitate orphan orang utans. The site is 43 sq. km of protected land at the edge of Kabili Sepilok Forest Reserve. Today around 60 to 80 orang utans are living free in the reserve. When Sabah became an independent state in Malaysia in 1963, a Game Branch was created in the Forest Department for the conservation of wild animals in the region. Consequently, 43 sq. km of protected land at the edge of Kabili Sepilok Forest Reserve was turned into a rehabilitation
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