... "orchid hunters", along with increasing consumer demand for orchids, also contribute to the endangerment of Borneo's native orchids.
Compelled by concern for the demise of Borneo's native orchids, ...
A new population of rare leopard has been found living in thick forests on the Indonesian half of Borneo island, a researcher said Thursday.
... has been captured by scientists in Malaysia using a motion-triggered camera. Only 25-50 Borneo rhinos, a subspecies of the critically endangered Sumatran rhino, are thought to exist. They are found ...
Nearly the length of a human arm, a recently identified stick bug from the island of Borneo is the world's longest insect, British scientists said Thursday.
... LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Conservationists said Tuesday they were planning a big push to protect Borneo's orangutans, pygmy elephants and other endangered wildlife by purchasing land from palm oil ...
YORK, England, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A British survey indicates climate change is affecting tropical insects on Mount Kinabalu in Borneo, the third largest island in the world.
... aboriginal family that included individuals with acromegaly living in a mountainous region of Borneo, Malaysia when the effects of the family patriarch's growing pituitary tumor necessitated medical ...
Almost 1000 hectares of degraded land in the area designated Heart of Borneo is to be restored as orangutan habitat, following the signing of a memorandum of understanding between WWF-Malaysia and the ...
... one of 'the six most important experiments in the world' - the Planted Forests Project on the island of Borneo. 'This Malaysian project is visionary,' says the leader of the CSIRO team, David Boden...
One of the biggest populations of wild orangutans on Borneo will be extinct in three years without drastic measures to stop the expansion of palm oil plantations, conservationists said Wednesday.
... At this time the ancient continent known as Sundaland – an extension of the Asian landmass as far as Borneo and Java – was flooded to create the present-day archipelago.
Although sea-level rise no ...
... of Conservation. Conservation action essential to survival of orangutans, found only on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, must be region-specific to address the different ecological threats to each ...
... of birds and butterflies in 15 palm oil plantations in East Sabah, Malaysia, on the island of Borneo. He found that palm oil plantations supported between one and 13 butterfly species, and between ...
A rare Sumatran rhinoceros, whose species is on the brink of extinction, has been rescued injured in the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo island, a wildlife official said over the weekend.
... radio collar. The Borneo pygmy elephant may not be native to the island of Borneo after all. Instead, the population could be the last survivors of the Javan elephant race – accidentally saved from ...
