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.
The Indonesian government is to double the size of a national park that is one of the last havens for endangered Sumatran elephants and tigers.
... also shown from growth patterns in modern corals and a network of GPS instruments called the Sumatran GPS Array (SuGAr) that this section was continuing to accumulate strains that would eventually ...
An endangered Sumatran rhino has died at the Cincinnati Zoo, a setback to a program that successfully produced the first calves born in captivity in more than a century.
... , associate professor of Earth science at Rice University. "There has been speculation that these were somehow triggered by the Sumatran-Andaman earthquake that occurred on Dec. 26, 2004, but this is ...
... orangutan habitat loss in the Indonesian part of Borneo during that period.
"It is clear that the Sumatran orangutan is in rapid decline and unless extraordinary efforts are made soon, it could ...
... a motion-triggered camera. Only 25-50 Borneo rhinos, a subspecies of the critically endangered Sumatran rhino, are thought to exist. They are found in the interior Heart of Borneo forests of Sabah, ...
Indonesian authorities pledge to stop the loss of forests and species in Sumatra, one of the world's most ecologically important islands.
The first ever photo of a live Sumatran muntjac is also the first record of the species in 80 years and establishes the muntjac as a "new" species, exerts say.
... to saving Sumatra is facing an early test, following revelations that Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) had pushed a 45-kilometre, legally questionable logging highway through prime Sumatran tiger habitat...
... do it — although if you're the female part of the equation, you risk getting eaten by your mate. Sex is also a little rough for Sumatran rhinos and topi antelopes, but for dolphins, it's all good.
Conservationists urge Indonesia to halt illegal deforestation, after six people are killed by Sumatran tigers.
Indonesia's tiger catchers have a double job - protecting humans from tigers, and tigers from humans.
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T. Heaton and J. Yang of Caltech simulated ground shaking from an earthquake similar to the giant Sumatran earthquake (M 9.2) that occurred in 2004, and which is hypothesized to be similar to the ...
The trade in orangutans, particularly babies, is taking the Sumatran species towards extinction, a report concludes.
