Makeover for Labuan Bird Park

Published on: Thursday, May 09, 2019

By: Bernama

LABUAN: The zoo-like Labuan Bird Park is set for a makeover by year-end, with visitors able to enter several walk-in aviaries to observe free-flying birds.

The development of the park, with a RM1-million allocation from the Federal Territories Ministry, will be guided by the emphasis on recreation, education, conservation and research, park director Dr Marysia James Abie said Wednesday.

It will be a recreational facility and also serve to educate the public, she said, adding that visitors will be educated on endangered species and captive breeding.

Marysia said that by next year, at the latest, the park will be home to the Borneo Birds Conservation Centre which undertakes research on the breeding, feeding and rehabilitation of critically-endangered bird species from around Borneo.

She told Bernama the park will house an additional 1,000 birds across 100 species, on top of the more than 600 birds of 70 species, 38 from Borneo and 32 exotic species.

Marysia said the park had become a small rehabilitation centre and sanctuary where free-flying birds have come to feed, live and breed over the years.

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