The Forest Department Sarawak (FDS) is making an official attempt to enter the Malaysia Book of Records by planting 5,000 trees from 60 different Shorea species at the Sabal Forest Reserve. The ...

The forests of the Heart of Borneo area are of high value for people’s livelihoods and the environment. There is a strong interdependence between Indigenous Peoples and the resources as well as the ...

Each forest has its own unique charm that captivates and enchants every visitor. From Amazon’s Heart to Borneo’s Lungs The Amazon Rainforest, often referred to as the “lungs of the Earth ...

Palm oil companies in Indonesia continue to operate on protected peatlands and clear forests, despite having their forestry ...

Borneo may seem like a world away from Indiana, but the fate of its rainforests has direct consequences for Hoosiers.

But that did not discourage citizen scientists on expeditions to the Ulu Temburong forest in Borneo to keep adding them to scientific records, one at a time. Together with a team of researchers ...

This assumes, of course, that there will still be orangutans left to study in the forests of Borneo and Sumatra. In the 1980s and ’90s, some conservationists predicted that orangutans would go ...

The chocolate-colored Kinabatangan River stretches 350 miles through one of the oldest rain forests on Earth. It’s located in Malaysia’s Sabah province on the island of Borneo, the third ...

Borneo is also under serious threat from a number of human activities including logging, mining, and large-scale rubber and palm oil plantations. The Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary consists of ...

See All Key Ideas MEKAR RAYA, Indonesia — Yulius Yogi kneels under the forest canopy here on the island of Borneo, surveying land he plans to reclaim for his Dayak Simpan Indigenous community.

Much of the remaining population of proboscis monkeys lives outside of protected areas, and is increasingly under threat because of habitat loss caused by forest clearing for logging, cultivation and ...