title: Belait Swamp Forest
text: # Belait Swamp Forest
  
  Belait Swamp Forest is a 25,000 ha tract of forested land in the Belait District of Brunei in north-western Borneo. It has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA). It contains peat swamp, mixed dipterocarp, and tropical heath forest.
  
  ## Birds
  
  The site was identified as an IBA because it supports significant numbers of the populations of various threatened bird species, including black partridges, Bornean crestless firebacks, large green pigeons, Storm's storks, Wallace's hawk-eagles, wrinkled hornbills, Malay blue-banded kingfishers, blue-headed and fairy pittas, Bornean bristleheads, hook-billed and straw-headed bulbuls, and large-billed blue-flycatchers.
  
  ## Conservation
  
  The IBA contains some forest reserves, but as a whole is vulnerable to habitat fragmentation from pipeline and road construction, and by wildfire.
  
  