A new WWF study tracking pygmy elephants by satellite on the island of Borneo shows that the remaining herds of this endangered species are under threat.
KOTA KINABALU: Borneo elephants, a distinct subspecies of Asian elephants, are now classified as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened ...
Borneo may seem like a world away from Indiana, but the fate of its rainforests has direct consequences for Hoosiers.
Together with their children, they’ve made it a family mission to reveal new threats to the great apes ... them in the thick rain forest of Borneo. No one is more familiar with the orangutan ...
Threats from poaching and the illegal pet trade are also considerable. Studies have shown that as many as 500 orangutans from Indonesian Borneo alone are lost to the illegal pet trade every year.
In the rainforests of West Kalimantan, in Indonesian Borneo, the Indigenous Dayak Iban listen to what they call “omen birds,” or birds they say sing messages from spirits, Mongabay’s Sonam ...