Abstract Hornbills (Family: Bucerotidae) are one of the iconic animal groups in Borneo, forest-dependent and playing a significant role in the tropical rainforest ecosystem. Here, we aim to explore the hornbill species present in the rainforests of Tawau Hills Park (THP)...

KOTA KINABALU: When school reopens and face-to-face classes resume, teachers in SMK Balung Tawau hope to see most of their students adopting new environmentally friendly practices such as going plastic-free...

How planting fig trees could make Sabah, in Malaysian Borneo, Asia’s top wildlife tourism destination and help restore its forests...

Pengenalan Gajah Bornean (Elephas maximus borneensis) adalah gajah terkecil di dunia. Hal ini kerana, ukurannya yang sangat kecil berbanding dengan sepupu mereka yang jauh lebih besar di Afrika, mereka sering dikenali sebagai gajah gergasi Borneo. Mereka hanya dijumpai di bahagian Kepulauan timur laut, dengan sebahagian besar populasi tersebar di wilayah pesisir timur Sabah. Populasi yang dianggarkan hanya 1,500-2,000, ..

enulis: Shavez Cheema and Martin Parry, 1StopBorneoWildlife Menurut keterangan Alfred Russel Wallace mengenai perjalanannya di 'Kepulauan Melayu', beliau banyak menerangkan mengenai dia mempunyai keberanian, sering melakukan perjalanan laut yang berbahaya yang mana dia perlu mengikut pergerakan angin dan arus yang berlaku...

Penulis: Shavez Cheema dan Martin Parry dari 1StopBorneoWildlife Sejak abad ke-21 sehingga tahun 2020, aktiviti pemerhatian mamalia di Borneo menunjukkan peningkatan populariti yang stabil walaupun populasi mamalia itu sendiri mengalami penurunan. Kumpulan pemerhati yang teratur biasanya datang untuk melihat kucing liar,..

Where The Wild Things Are

During the 21st century, until 2020, mammal watching in Borneo had shown a steady rise in popularity although the populations of the mammals themselves have often been declining. Organised groups of watchers usually come to observe our wild cats, flying squirrels, primates, civets and more; and when they arrive,...

This is our latest conservation project in Sabah and it needs a bit of explanation. There is a growing attention now being given to the role of fig trees in the maintenance of biodiversity in the rainforests of Borneo; this will be better understood by referring to Quentin Philipps’ planned new publication on the Figs of Borneo (publication date to be confirmed). It is a visionary, long term...

Reading Alfred Russel Wallace’s descriptions of his travels in ‘The Malay Archipelago’, tells us much about the man: he had courage, often undertaking dangerous sea journeys where he was at the mercy of prevailing winds and currents, and relying ,..

Rajah Brooke’s Birdwing (RBB) is Malaysia’s national butterfly, being found in rainforests of Peninsular Malaysia as well as in Sabah and Sarawak. In his book The Malay Archipelago, Alfred Russel Wallace describes how he named the butterfly after James Brooke, the first ‘White Rajah’, after enjoying his hospitality in Sarawak; this was in 1855...

Before we go any further, I wish to make something clear: my love for the Sunda Pangolin takes the form of wishing to conserve it; I want to protect it from misguided people who still think it is acceptable to kill it for food or to use its scales in traditional Chinese medicine...

Taman-Taman Sabah adalah sebuah agensi yang bertanggungjawab untuk taman hutan yang terdapat di Sabah seperti Taman Nasional Kinabalu, The Crocker Range, Taman Tun Mustapha, Taman Bukit Tawau, dan kawasan simpanan laut, seperti Sipadan Dalam artikel ini, dengan menggunakan data dan gambar gambar kami sendiri, kami akan berkongsi dengan anda beberapa amfibia dan reptilia indah yang terdapat di Taman Nasional Bukit Tawau dan Kinabalu..

Can elephants and commercial plantations co-exist to their mutual benefit? Authors: Ram Nathan1, Martin Parry2, Chun Xing Wong2 and Shavez Cheema2 (1 Sabah Softwoods Berhad, 21StopBorneo Wildlife)...

An elephant encounter is one of the most special moments you can have while traveling abroad. But unfortunately these days we have to choose carefully where to do this, as many elephants are brutally exploited for the tourism industry. Simply put, If you love elephants, don’t ever ride them. This is not a natural thing for elephants, and they have to go through a horrifying process in order to be ‘tame’ enough to do this, which I’ve gone into more detail below...

LAHAD DATU, Malaysia -- With hundreds of kilometers of beaches and tropical islands, and a forested interior teeming with wildlife such as orangutans, sun bears and pygmy elephants, the state of Sabah in Malaysian Borneo is a tourism hot spot...

The two green-bodied Argiope chloreis Thorell 1877 and A. chloreides Chrysanthus 1961 from Southeast Asia were shown to be distinct species on the basis of morphological and multi-gene data analyses. The two species recorded interspecific uncorrected p-distances of 7.87−8.83% and 8.21−9.18% based on COI and COII datasets..

Reizen Vliegende kikkers, dansende kikkers, kleefkikkers: op Borneo leven 183 kikkersoorten. Spiedend en sluipend door de jungle..

Het regenwoud maakt steeds vaker plaats voor palmolieplantages. In die nieuwe omgeving kan het schubdier goed aarden. Maar het beest is er ook extra kwetsbaar.

What to do in Tawau? Well, for sure, hiking in the Borneo rainforest: Tawau Hills Park is Sabah’s southernmost forest reserve, situated about 20km north of Tawau town. It’s still an offbeat destination that few travelers to Sabah visit — likewise,..