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  • Other genera of trees often found in Sarawak's peat swamp forests include Dryobalanops and Melanorrhea.

    Borneo peat swamp forests 2008

  • He took the name Brooke as his surname, reigned for almost 50 years, extended Sarawak's boundaries, and earned a high reputation as a fighting man and just ruler.

    Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

  • This question of the Limbang river will afford a good instance and specimen of the oppressive government, or want of government, on the part of the Brunai rulers, and I will return to it again, continuing now my short glance at Sarawak's progress.

    British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo 1884

  • The limit of Sarawak's coast line to the South-West is Cape, or

    British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo 1884

  • Several threatened and endangered species, including the Sumatran rhino, the Bornean clouded leopard and the Borneo pygmy elephant, are found in Sarawak's peatland forests.

    NYT > Home Page By JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF 2011

  • Several threatened and endangered species, including the Sumatran rhino, the Bornean clouded leopard and the Borneo pygmy elephant, are found in Sarawak's peatland forests.

    NYT > Home Page By JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF 2011

  • She also knew that Sarawak's rate of depletion was estimated to be the fastest and worst in the world.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • "As the timber resource has been depleted the timber companies are now engaging in the oil palm business, completing the annihilation of Sarawak's peat swamp forests," Marcel Silvius, senior program manager with Wetlands International, said in a statement.

    NYT > Home Page By JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF 2011

  • As one of the few outsiders keenly interested in Sarawak's fate she then started to take a deeper interest in what was happening in the state.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • Sarawak's coastal peatland forests are disappearing at an even faster rate, with an estimated 33 percent cut down since 2005, the group found.

    NYT > Home Page By JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF 2011

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