I'm fortunate to explore and to see two amazing things:
1) The blooming time one of the largest flower species in the world- Rafflesia at Vivian's Rafflesia Garden located at Poring,Ranau,Sabah,Malaysia. Very rare to see the rafflesia flower in blooming time because it well take years for the rafflesia bud to develop before it will bloom.
2). The LOHAN DAM, a place whereby all the waste (heavy metal) from the legendary Mamut Copper Mine been storage deep to the ground in formation of huge lake from year 1975-1999. Nowadays, Lohan Dam slowly cover by plant with hoping it will recover all the pollution by the mother nature itself.
RAFFLESIA:
Rafflesia is a genus of parasitic flowering plants. It contains approximately 28 species (including four incompletely characterized species as recognized by Willem Meijer in 1997), all found in Southeast Asia, mainly in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines. It was first discovered by Louis Deschamps in Java between 1791 and 1794, but his notes and illustrations, seized by the British in 1803, were not available to western science until 1861. It was later found in the Indonesian rainforest in Bengkulu, Sumatra by an Indonesian guide working for Joseph Arnold in 1818, and named after Sir Stamford Raffles, the leader of the expedition.
LOHAN DAM & Mamut Copper Mine:
The crater lake of the former Mamut Copper Mine.
Ranau was the centre of Malaysian copper, gold and silver mining from 1975 to 1999. The Mamut Copper Mine at the slopes of Mount Kinabalu was an open cast mine which was operated by a joint venture of Japanese and Malaysian investors under the Overseas Mineral Resources Development Sabah Sdn Bhd, later restructured under the name Mamut Copper Mining Sdn Bhd. (MCM). During the 25 years of operation, the Mamut Copper Mine was responsible for 50% of the gold and 90% of the silver production in Malaysia. In its booming years, MCM was mining an annual production of 25,000 tons of copper in Ranau. Operations were discontinued in 1999, leaving a crater of 1200 metres diameter and a depth of 500 m. Filled with water, the crater forms now a huge lake, which - together with the heavy metal legacies of the Lohan Tailings Dam - made the headlines of several reports on environmental contamination.
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