Kota Kinabalu: Plantations in Sabah are seeing benefits from designating land for conservation purposes following increasing cases of human-wildlife conflicts.
Some, like the plantation-owned Labuk Bay Proboscis Sanctuary on the east coast of Sandakan, “accidentally” stumbled on the benefits back in 1997.
Yet Hing plantation saw potential in wildlife sighting tours and after years of feeding the endemic and endangered proboscis monkeys with pancakes (without sugar), cucumbers and long beans, the plantation is now a full-blown tourist attraction.