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The Danum Valley Conservation Area is a 438 square kilometres tract of relatively undisturbed lowland dipterocarp forest in Sabah, Malaysia. The area holds unique status in the sense that before it became a conservation area there were no human settlements within the area, meaning that hunting, logging and other human interference was non existent making the area almost unique.

Southern Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) looking through vegetation

Protoxodera monstrosa, male: a very rare Praying Mantis in Danum Valley, Sabah

A logging truck crosses the Danum river in Danum Valley, Sabah

Mature Male Bornean Orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus morio, hanging from a tree in Danum Valley, Sabah

Mist at dawn glides past the Rainforest tree canopy in Danum Valley, Sabah

File eared tree frog in the Danum Valley, Sabah

Dawn mist with the tree canopy in Danum Valley, Sabah

Paradise Tree Snake or Paradise Flying Snake Chrysopelea paradis

Golden orb spider in the Danum Valley, Sabah

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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010

Final images are now online at the Sabah Youth Conservation Expedition Website including photos from Danum Valley, Iban Longhouse, Kinabatangan river, Bagang, Orangutan in Sepilok, Palm Oil Plantations and Deforestation, Sabah tea Plantation, Pitcher plants of Mesilau, Kinabalu National park, Palau Sulug Island, turtle Island and the Sabah Youth Conservation Expedition Team

I’m acting as photographer for this expedition arriving a couple of weeks before the group to have more time to make photographs of the rainforest. You can read about the background to the project and follow daily progress and photography on the expedition website from 13-25th July 2010.The expedition will produce the following publications:

SABAH DIARY EXPEDITION BOOK (via blurb.com)

DANUM VALLEY PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK (via blub.com)

PALM OIL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE (publisher tbc)

The expedition will also be creating sound recording for potential inclusion in a BBC Voices of Sabah Programme