Sabah
Langom Research Station
Langom Research Station is a newly established facility located within the buffer zone of the Danum Valley Conservation Area in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo.
Completed in 2024 and officially launched in 2025, the station supports both scientific research and low-impact wildlife tourism. It offers modest but comfortable twin-room accommodation for researchers, birders, and nature enthusiasts keen to explore one of Borneo’s most ecologically rich regions. There are eight terraced rooms in total — four with air conditioning and four with fans — each with an attached bathroom and small seating areas at the front and back. Electricity is solar-powered during the day, with air conditioning and hot water available from 6pm to 6am when the generator runs.
Langom’s location within the Ulu Segama-Malua Forest Reserve provides access to a remarkable mix of forest types: towering primary rainforest, regenerating secondary forest, and riparian corridors along rivers. The surrounding habitat supports an extraordinary diversity of wildlife, including marbled cats, orangutans, gibbons, sun bears, pygmy elephants, and nocturnal species such as tarsiers, slow lorises, and civets. Birding is exceptional, with over 270 species recorded. The ridge-top access road places visitors eye-level with the canopy, making it ideal for photography and spotting rare species like the Bornean Bristlehead, giant pitta, helmeted hornbill, and Sunda frogmouth.
Facilities
8 terraced twin rooms (4 air-conditioned, 4 with fans), attached bathrooms, front and back outdoor seating areas, solar-powered electricity during the day, generator-powered air conditioning and hot water (6pm–6am), kitchen and dining area, field training zones, basic laboratory for specimen processing, eco-tourism engagement areas, educational workshop space.
Local Wildlife
Birds: Rhinoceros hornbill, wreathed hornbill, wrinkled hornbill, white-crowned hornbill, black hornbill, pied hornbill, helmeted hornbill, black-crowned pitta, giant pitta, hooded pitta, blue-headed pitta, rufous-backed kingfisher, stork-billed kingfisher, great slaty woodpecker, maroon woodpecker, Sunda pygmy woodpecker, racquet-tailed drongo, bronzed drongo, blue-crowned hanging parrot, long-tailed parakeet, crested goshawk, changeable hawk-eagle, black eagle, crested serpent eagle, Blyth’s paradise flycatcher, Asian fairy bluebird, great argus, crested fireback, ground cuckoo, Sunda frogmouth, large frogmouth, red-bearded bee-eater, blue-throated bee-eater, black-and-red broadbill, yellow-and-black broadbill, scarlet-rumped trogon, Diard’s trogon, Raffles’ malkoha, barred eagle-owl, buffy fish owl, Bornean bristlehead
Mammals: Clouded leopard, marbled cat, leopard cat, sun bear, orangutan, gibbon, maroon langur, proboscis monkey, binturong, banded civet, Malay civet, porcupine, yellow-throated marten, western tarsier, Philippine slow loris, giant flying squirrel, Thomas’ flying squirrel, greater mouse deer, lesser mouse deer, sambar deer, pygmy elephant.
Optional Activities
Day and night 4WD safaris, guided mammal-watching drives, birdwatching along the ridge-top road, night walks on the Gibbon Trail, searching for nocturnal birds like Sunda frogmouth and large frogmouth, photography of canopy-level wildlife, swimming at the nearby forest stream beach, educational workshops, field training sessions, forest trail walks.
Jonathan Morris
Area Specialist
If you have any questions regarding our Borneo tours, please feel free to contact me on +44 (0)1803 866965
A most enjoyable tour, ran smoothly and saw most of what we hoped to see. Borneo people we met were friendly and helpful. Standard of food was far better than we expected and most enjoyable. Would recommend this trip to anyone wishing to visit Borneo for a few weeks. Thanks!