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					<title>Uniting plantations to save Bornean elephants: Interview with Farina Othman</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/uniting-plantations-to-save-bornean-elephants-interview-with-farina-othman/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/uniting-plantations-to-save-bornean-elephants-interview-with-farina-othman/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>10 Jun 2025 14:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Lee Kwai Han]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Karen Coates]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, Sabah, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animals, Biodiversity, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation leadership, Deforestation, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Fellows, Forests, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Human-wildlife Conflict, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Palm Oil, Plantations, Rainforests, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2006, Farina Othman heard a loud boom when she was observing a group of Bornean elephants in a forest in the Lower Kinabatangan area, one of the largest floodplains in Malaysia. She recognized that it was the sound from a bamboo cannon. It’s a type of homemade firecracker locals use to chase elephants away. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2006, Farina Othman heard a loud boom when she was observing a group of Bornean elephants in a forest in the Lower Kinabatangan area, one of the largest floodplains in Malaysia. She recognized that it was the sound from a bamboo cannon. It’s a type of homemade firecracker locals use to chase elephants away. At that time, she had just started her master’s studies, focusing on Bornean elephants (Elephas maximus borneensis). She felt humans were being unfair to the elephants. Determined to help, she decided to step in to be their voice. Today, only about 1,000 Bornean elephants remain in the wild, mainly in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. In 2024, the species was listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The plight of the Bornean elephants began in the 1970s. Between 1973 and 2010, Sabah lost more than 52% of its lowland forest (below 500 meters, or 1,640 feet, above sea level) to logging. Many of these lands were later converted into oil palm plantations. For the Bornean elephants, more than half of their ideal habitat is gone. Othman, now in her early 40s, has become a Bornean elephant conservationist and teaches at Universiti Malaysia Sabah. She told Mongabay that habitat loss and fragmentation fuel human-elephant conflict. “They don&#8217;t want to live or share the landscape with the elephants,” Othman said of some local communities. Despite being protected by law, the elephants face retaliatory killings by gun or poison. Farina Othman, a Bornean elephant conservationist who&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/uniting-plantations-to-save-bornean-elephants-interview-with-farina-othman/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-300428</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Forest restoration can fare better with human helping hand, study shows</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/forest-restoration-can-fare-better-with-human-helping-hand-study-shows/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Sep 2023 15:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Forest Restoration Solutions and Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, Sabah, Southeast Asia, and Tropics]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Degraded Lands, Ecosystems, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Landscape Restoration, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Reforestation, Restoration, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Sustainable Forest Management, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[An experiment in Malaysian Borneo found that the more species of tree seedlings planted in a previously logged plot, the more the result later resembles an old-growth forest, with greater biomass and forest complexity.]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2002, three researchers set out to conduct a large-scale experiment — both in terms of area and time. Their goal: to explore the role of tree diversity in the restoration of lowland rainforest. Now, 21 years later, early results are coming in and are described in a new study published in Science Advances. The key finding: Human-assisted forest restoration can get better results than leaving nature to its own devices — an important result as humanity debates how best to restore the millions of hectares of forest lost to logging, conversion to agriculture and other causes. The scientists began with 500 hectares (1,235 acres) of logged forest in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, within the Malua Forest Reserve — a vast state-run selectively logged forest. They split those 500 hectares into 124 equally sized blocks. Some blocks they left alone — letting nature do the work of regrowth. In others, they planted a single tree species. In still others, they planted four species of trees, and in some, 16 species. They dubbed their project the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment (SBE) and began with several questions: In a few decades’ time, would the number of species restored at the start matter, would the plots look different, and if so, how different? Forest canopy in the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment (SBE), years into the project. Image courtesy of Ryan Veryard. “When you go to the site in person, the first thing you notice is how hard it is to walk through the ones left to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/forest-restoration-can-fare-better-with-human-helping-hand-study-shows/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-273707</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Group certification helps Malaysia’s Sabah aim for palm oil sustainability</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/group-certification-helps-malaysias-sabah-aim-for-palm-oil-sustainability/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Sep 2023 18:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Louise Hunt]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Malaysia, Sabah, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Biodiversity, Certification, Conservation, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Governance, Palm Oil, Plantations, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Tropical Deforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[In May, 25 members of a growers’ cooperative in the Tawau region of Sabah became the first in Malaysia to receive certification as a group from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil. Though a small step, it was an important milestone in realizing Sabah’s ambitions for statewide certification. RSPO certification is widely accepted as the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In May, 25 members of a growers’ cooperative in the Tawau region of Sabah became the first in Malaysia to receive certification as a group from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil. Though a small step, it was an important milestone in realizing Sabah’s ambitions for statewide certification. RSPO certification is widely accepted as the most rigorous sustainability standard for palm oil, and obtaining it can potentially improve a farmer&#8217;s profitability. But the certification process presents a daunting challenge for smallholders, who typically lack the necessary technical and financial resources. “To obtain RSPO certification is not an easy journey, and it needs a lot of money to be certified and sustain with the certification,” says Mohd Razzeman Siswanto, group manager of the Sabah Palm Oil Landscape Cooperative, or LKSS by its Malay acronym, the growers’ cooperative in Tawau. A smallholder in an oil palm plantation. The certification process presents a daunting challenge for smallholders, who typically lack the necessary technical and financial resources. Image courtesy of WWF-Malaysia/Mazidi Abd Ghani. A new certification paradigm In 2015, Sabah, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo, became the world&#8217;s first region to pilot a jurisdictional certification approach to sustainable palm oil (JCSPO), when the government committed to reaching 100% RSPO certification by 2025. Adopting this model means a significant shift to focus on the sustainability of the landscape as a whole, rather than focusing on certifying individual estates. Sabah’s jurisdictional certification pilot was driven by a few pioneers within the forestry department&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/group-certification-helps-malaysias-sabah-aim-for-palm-oil-sustainability/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-273359</doi>				</item>
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					<title>In Sabah, natural capital agreement surfaces again, despite critics</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/in-sabah-natural-capital-agreement-surfaces-again-despite-critics/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Aug 2023 21:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon Offset Markets]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, Sabah, and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Activism, Carbon Credits, Carbon Market, Carbon Offsets, Climate Change, Conservation, Environment, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Politics, Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Supporters of an embattled carbon deal in the Malaysian Bornean state of Sabah have publicly resumed efforts to bring the 2-million hectare (4.9 million-acre), 100-year agreement into force. &#8220;This initiative is expected to become a prominent carbon dioxide sink, reinforcing our proactive stance on climate restoration,&#8221; Sabah’s Deputy Chief Minister Jeffrey Kitingan said in a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Supporters of an embattled carbon deal in the Malaysian Bornean state of Sabah have publicly resumed efforts to bring the 2-million hectare (4.9 million-acre), 100-year agreement into force. &#8220;This initiative is expected to become a prominent carbon dioxide sink, reinforcing our proactive stance on climate restoration,&#8221; Sabah’s Deputy Chief Minister Jeffrey Kitingan said in a June 28 statement, according to The Star newspaper. Kitingan has been the project’s most visible proponent and a driving force in putting together the nature conservation agreement (NCA) without public knowledge in October 2021. But since November 2021, when Mongabay first surfaced news of the agreement — signed by members of the state government, a Singaporean firm and an Australian consultancy — it has faced a backlash of criticism about its origins and planned implementation. Maliau Falls in Sabah, Malaysia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. Nearly two years on, Kitingan said Aug. 3 that plans were in the works for a pilot project in Sabah to work out the complexities of carbon and natural capital crediting, according to Talantang, an online news site. Seri Hajiji Noor, Sabah’s chief minister, also confirmed to several media outlets that the state government is “fine-tuning the details.” &#8220;It is good for us to explore this industry,” Hajiji said Aug. 1, according to The Star. “Our forests can offer us lucrative returns, but we have to manage our areas and water sources properly.” Kitingan and other backers of the NCA argue the sale of carbon credits from Sabah’s forest resources will&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/in-sabah-natural-capital-agreement-surfaces-again-despite-critics/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>‘I’m not distressed, I&#8217;m just pissed off’: Q&#038;A with Sumatran rhino expert John Payne</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/im-not-distressed-im-just-pissed-off-qa-with-sumatran-rhino-expert-john-payne/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 May 2023 16:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asian Rhinos]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sabah, Southeast Asia, and Sumatra]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Books, Conservation, Corruption, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Law, Extinction, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Mammals, Poaching, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Rhinos, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Sumatran Rhino, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2019, the last Sumatran rhino in Malaysia died. Her name was Iman and ever since her capture in 2014, she had been under the care of the Bornean Rhino Alliance (BORA), headed by executive director John Payne in the Malaysian state of Sabah. After her death, Payne, who’d worked on Sumatran rhinos since 1979 [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2019, the last Sumatran rhino in Malaysia died. Her name was Iman and ever since her capture in 2014, she had been under the care of the Bornean Rhino Alliance (BORA), headed by executive director John Payne in the Malaysian state of Sabah. After her death, Payne, who’d worked on Sumatran rhinos since 1979 (with an admittedly long break in the middle due to “frustration”), was suddenly left without any rhinos to care for, after years of trying to breed the last male and female in Malaysia. The disappointment hasn’t slowed him down. He’s now working with other species — Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), Bornean elephants (Elephas maximus) and banteng (Bos javanicus) — and he’s written a book, The Hairy Rhinoceros: History, Ecology and Some Lessons for Management of the Last Megafauna, where he argues that the strategy to save Sumatran rhinos from extinction was flawed from the start by poor compromises and stifled over and over again by bureaucracy. Among Sumatran rhino experts, Payne has always been known for his candor, his acerbic wit, and his sometimes controversial positions. And he pulls no punches in his latest interview with Mongabay. He criticizes both the rising bureaucracy of conservation organizations, and what he sees as the attitude of Indonesian officials for the delays and inaction on Sumatran rhino conservation. “The problem was very much Indonesia and the international framework not working,” Payne says, adding that “it&#8217;s shocking in this day and age, that Indonesia has its forestry and environment&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/im-not-distressed-im-just-pissed-off-qa-with-sumatran-rhino-expert-john-payne/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-268506</doi>				</item>
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					<title>If there’s an elephant in the room, that’s because it’s not in a protected area</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/if-theres-an-elephant-in-the-room-thats-because-its-not-in-a-protected-area/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Nov 2022 11:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jim Tan]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Deforestation, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Forests, Human-wildlife Conflict, Mammals, Protected Areas, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Over the span of 10 years, a team of researchers have been following 102 Asian elephants in Malaysia, collecting more than 600,000 GPS fixes in the process. When they analyzed the data, the team found that the elephants preferred habitats on the edges of and surrounding protected areas rather than inside them, raising important questions [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Over the span of 10 years, a team of researchers have been following 102 Asian elephants in Malaysia, collecting more than 600,000 GPS fixes in the process. When they analyzed the data, the team found that the elephants preferred habitats on the edges of and surrounding protected areas rather than inside them, raising important questions for the conservation of elephants in the region. “This is the most comprehensive analysis of Asian elephant movements and habitat relationships to date,” said Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz, a conservation ecologist at China&#8217;s Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, and a co-author of the published findings. “Most elephants had more than half their home range outside of protected areas with only a few individuals having more than 75% of their home range inside protected areas.” The wide-ranging study followed the Indian elephant subspecies (Elephas maximus indicus), in Peninsular Malaysia, and the Bornean subspecies (E. m. borneensis), in the state of Sabah, to understand their ranging behavior. It may seem counterintuitive that elephants would prefer to spend their time outside of protected areas, risking conflict with humans, but there’s one big motivation: food. “Against what most people might assume, old-growth tropical rainforests do not provide much food for elephants,” says Benoît Goossens, a conservation biologist at Cardiff University and co-author of the study. “Old-growth rainforests are super-efficient systems where most of the plants are heavily protected with secondary compounds (toxins) to deter herbivores.” The foods that elephants prefer, such as grasses, lianas, bananas and fast-growing trees, are far more prevalent&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/if-theres-an-elephant-in-the-room-thats-because-its-not-in-a-protected-area/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-262793</doi>				</item>
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					<title>How many orangutans does $1 billion save? Depends how you spend it, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/how-many-orangutans-does-1-billion-save-depends-how-you-spend-it-study-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Apr 2022 08:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jim Tan]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Great Apes]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Malaysia, Sabah, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Welfare, Animals, Apes, Biodiversity, Charismatic Animals, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Law, Finance, Great Apes, Law Enforcement, Mammals, NGOs, Orangutans, Primates, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Research, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Over the past 20 years, more than $1 billion has been spent on orangutan conservation. Yet all three species of orangutan are currently classified as critically endangered and continue to decline. A new study published in Current Biology, believed to be the first of its kind, has evaluated the cost-effectiveness of all orangutan conservation spending [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Over the past 20 years, more than $1 billion has been spent on orangutan conservation. Yet all three species of orangutan are currently classified as critically endangered and continue to decline. A new study published in Current Biology, believed to be the first of its kind, has evaluated the cost-effectiveness of all orangutan conservation spending and has found that some methods are far more effective than others. “It was important to really robustly quantify it and say, OK, we have invested a billion dollars and we still managed to lose 100,000 orangutans,” says study co-author Erik Meijaard, a forest conservation scientist who has worked in Indonesia and Malaysia for the past 30 years. “We probably would have lost 135,000 if we had not done anything — it’s up to you to decide if that’s a positive or negative story.” The study evaluated the cost-effectiveness of six different conservation activities on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, Kalimantan on the Indonesian side of Borneo, and Sabah on the Malaysian side of Borneo. In total, $870 million was spent on orangutan conservation across the three regions between 2000 and 2019. When those figures are adjusted for inflation, the spending is equivalent to more than $1 billion in today’s money. Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) in Malaysia. All three orangutan species are critically endangered despite massive conservation investments. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. To assess conservation effectiveness, the research team brought together data from a range of sources to build a picture of the orangutan&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/how-many-orangutans-does-1-billion-save-depends-how-you-spend-it-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Malaysian officials dampen prospects for giant, secret carbon deal in Sabah</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/malaysian-officials-dampen-prospects-for-giant-secret-carbon-deal-in-sabah/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Feb 2022 20:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, Sabah, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Avoided Deforestation, carbon, Carbon Credits, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Market, Carbon Offsets, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, climate finance, Conservation, Deforestation, Degraded Lands, Development, Economics, Ecosystem Services, Ecosystems, Environment, Environmental Services, Forest Carbon, forest degradation, Forest Destruction, Forests, Global Warming, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Landscape Restoration, Mitigation, Nature-based climate solutions, NGOs, Payments For Ecosystem Services, Politics, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Redd, Reforestation, Restoration, Solutions, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Traditional People, Tropical Forests, and Water]]>
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							<![CDATA[An agreement for the rights to the natural capital covering 2 million hectares (4.9 million acres) in Malaysian Borneo for the next 100 years “in its present form is legally impotent,” according to Nor Asiah Mohd Yusof, the attorney general for the state of Sabah. Nor Asiah’s assertions are the strongest signal yet that the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[An agreement for the rights to the natural capital covering 2 million hectares (4.9 million acres) in Malaysian Borneo for the next 100 years “in its present form is legally impotent,” according to Nor Asiah Mohd Yusof, the attorney general for the state of Sabah. Nor Asiah’s assertions are the strongest signal yet that the sweeping pact involving a Singaporean shell company lacks the support of key leaders in the state. “The State Government will not permit any land to be leased, transferred or otherwise &#8216;handed over&#8217; as part of any carbon trading or carbon monetisation program,” she said in a Feb. 9 statement. “This includes the proposed NCA.” The NCA, short for nature conservation agreement, was signed between leaders of the state of Sabah and representatives of Singapore-based Hoch Standard Ptd. Ltd. on Oct. 28, 2021. Though the specifics of the NCA remain vague, it enlists Hoch Standard to help the state sell credits for carbon sequestration, water provisioning and other natural capital stemming from the protection of Sabah’s forests from logging and other potentially destructive uses. In return for its services, Hoch Standard will get 30% of the revenue, according to the deal’s terms. A community in western Sabah. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay. Mongabay reported on Nov. 9 that the deal had been struck in secret. One person who said he was involved in the negotiations — Peter Burgess, the Australian CEO of Malaysia-based Global Nature Capital Sdn. Bhd. and Tierra Australia Pty. Ltd. — told Mongabay&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/malaysian-officials-dampen-prospects-for-giant-secret-carbon-deal-in-sabah/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Journeying in biocultural diversity and conservation philanthropy: Q&#038;A with Ken Wilson</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/journeying-in-biocultural-diversity-and-conservation-philanthropy-qa-with-ken-wilson/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Feb 2022 04:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Nature conservation Influencers]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, Sabah, Southeast Asia, and Zimbabwe]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biocultural Diversity, Biodiversity, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Environment, Green, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, and philanthropy]]>
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							<![CDATA[The concept of &#8220;biocultural diversity&#8221; has gained wider prominence in recent decades as academics, institutions, and practitioners have expanded cross-disciplinary work at the intersection of human culture and biological diversity. Within the conservation realm, this trend has helped raise the profile of issues like Indigenous rights and traditional knowledge, especially since the mid-2010s as many [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The concept of &#8220;biocultural diversity&#8221; has gained wider prominence in recent decades as academics, institutions, and practitioners have expanded cross-disciplinary work at the intersection of human culture and biological diversity. Within the conservation realm, this trend has helped raise the profile of issues like Indigenous rights and traditional knowledge, especially since the mid-2010s as many philanthropic foundations and &#8220;mainstream&#8221; conservation NGOs moved toward more inclusive and community-oriented approaches beyond establishing strict protected areas. Ken Wilson, who has been working at the confluence of community rights, biocultural diversity, and philanthropy for the better part of 40 years, has been a keen observer and commentator on these developments, first as an academic, then a foundation program officer and director, and as an advisor and NGO leader. Lowland rainforest in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay Wilson, who served as the head of The Christensen Fund for 13 years and currently lives in Malaysian Borneo, told Mongabay that conservation’s trajectory–from an academic standpoint–has been increasingly influenced in the past 40 years by areas outside its traditional domain, “destabilized” by the “rights and social science inspired critique of &#8216;fortress conservation&#8217; and its corollaries in the 1980s and 1990s” and “global systems analysis enabled by remote sensing and computer modeling capacities.” “This research has been crucial to pluralizing and globalizing conservation,” he said. “It has enabled connection to the bubbling up of the environmental justice and Indigenous environmental movements and has taken mainstream conservation into earth system areas like climate, ecosystem&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/journeying-in-biocultural-diversity-and-conservation-philanthropy-qa-with-ken-wilson/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indigenous leader sues over Borneo natural capital deal</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/indigenous-leader-sues-over-borneo-natural-capital-deal/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Dec 2021 10:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon Offset Markets and Covering Climate Now]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, Sabah, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Avoided Deforestation, carbon, Carbon Credits, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Market, Carbon Offsets, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, climate finance, Conservation, Deforestation, Degraded Lands, Development, Economics, Ecosystem Services, Ecosystems, Environment, Environmental Services, Forest Carbon, forest degradation, Forest Destruction, Forests, Global Warming, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Human Rights, Hydroelectric Power, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Landscape Restoration, Mitigation, Nature-based climate solutions, NGOs, Palm Oil, Payments For Ecosystem Services, Politics, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Redd, Reforestation, Restoration, Solutions, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Traditional People, Tropical Forests, and Water]]>
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							<![CDATA[Update Feb. 10, 2022: Sabah&#8217;s attorney general says the consent of Indigenous communities is required for this agreement to move forward. Read the update here. Adrian Lasimbang, an Indigenous leader in Malaysian Borneo, is suing the state of Sabah, contesting a recently signed agreement selling the rights to carbon and other natural capital from 2 million [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Update Feb. 10, 2022: Sabah&#8217;s attorney general says the consent of Indigenous communities is required for this agreement to move forward. Read the update here. Adrian Lasimbang, an Indigenous leader in Malaysian Borneo, is suing the state of Sabah, contesting a recently signed agreement selling the rights to carbon and other natural capital from 2 million hectares (4.9 million acres) of forest to a foreign company for the next 100 years. The deal allows Hoch Standard Pte. Ltd., a Singaporean holding company, to sell credits for carbon and other natural capital, such as the provision of clean water, on the global market. It also calls for the protection and restoration of forests that would make these credits possible. And it stipulates that Sabah’s 70% share of the revenues, which according to the agreement’s backers, would go to funding employment, education and health care set forth by guidelines such as the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. The remaining 30% of revenues would go to Hoch Standard. Tawai Forest Reserve in Sabah, seen from the air. Image © LEAP. Civil society and Indigenous communities have criticized the agreement, which was signed by representatives of the state government and a Singapore-based company on Oct. 28. They say it bypassed substantive input and consent from the people living in and around Sabah’s forests. And, until recently, the framers of the agreement have shared scant information about the company (or companies) involved in the agreement and who they are led by. Lasimbang, who is a technical adviser&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/indigenous-leader-sues-over-borneo-natural-capital-deal/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Is colonial history repeating itself with Sabah forest carbon deal? (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/is-colonial-history-repeating-itself-with-sabah-forest-carbon-deals-big-reveal-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Dec 2021 00:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Cynthia Clare Ong Gaik Suan]]>
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						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Avoided Deforestation, Business, carbon, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Market, Climate Change, climate finance, Commentary, Conservation, Corporations, Economics, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, FPIC, Global Warming, Governance, Green, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Law, Marketing, Mitigation, NGOs, Payments For Ecosystem Services, Politics, Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, Tropical Forests, and Water]]>
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							<![CDATA[“Bornean communities locked into 2-million-hectare carbon deal they don’t know about” &#8211; 9 Nov 2021, Mongabay This was the headline Sabah woke up to on the morning of November 10th. Before the Mongabay story broke, I heard from Australian friends and allies as early as July that something was afoot. Forests, carbon, climate and communities [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[“Bornean communities locked into 2-million-hectare carbon deal they don’t know about” &#8211; 9 Nov 2021, Mongabay This was the headline Sabah woke up to on the morning of November 10th. Before the Mongabay story broke, I heard from Australian friends and allies as early as July that something was afoot. Forests, carbon, climate and communities are core to our collaborative work between civil society and government. I asked colleagues in government if they had any information but did not hear a clear response. Over the weeks, I heard increasingly ominous whisperings. On 28 October, I received an email from international partners who had seen a Sabah deal – claimed to be signed in August – mentioned by external corporate entities in presentation materials. They were curious if I knew anything about it. The materials were presented by Tierra Australia, Hoch Standard and Global Natural Capital (GNC) – seemingly Australian, Singaporean and Malaysian entities. Here are two slides from the 43 pages I received: Screenshot of slide 11 of 14 slides presented by the three companies. A month later, I’m still struggling to understand why and how this happened – and why we had to learn about it from outside Sabah. Much has been revealed since then. We’ve now read numerous press articles, social media posts and reposts. We’ve seen online videos of the home offices of our new partners and footage of Hoch Standard’s Corporate Advisor Stan Golokin representing Sabah at COP26 in Glasgow, explaining carbon. We’ve read fact sheets&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/is-colonial-history-repeating-itself-with-sabah-forest-carbon-deals-big-reveal-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Details emerge around closed-door carbon deal in Malaysian Borneo</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/details-emerge-around-closed-door-carbon-deal-in-malaysian-borneo/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Nov 2021 11:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon Offset Markets and Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, Sabah, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Avoided Deforestation, Business, carbon, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Market, Climate Change, climate finance, Conservation, Corporations, Economics, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, FPIC, Global Warming, Governance, Green, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Law, Marketing, Mitigation, NGOs, Payments For Ecosystem Services, Politics, Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, Tropical Forests, and Water]]>
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							<![CDATA[Update Feb. 10, 2022: Sabah&#8217;s attorney general says the consent of Indigenous communities is required for this agreement to move forward. Read the update here. Leaders in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo have begun to share more about a murky arrangement in which the rights to carbon and other ecosystem services [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Update Feb. 10, 2022: Sabah&#8217;s attorney general says the consent of Indigenous communities is required for this agreement to move forward. Read the update here. Leaders in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo have begun to share more about a murky arrangement in which the rights to carbon and other ecosystem services from the state’s forests were sold to a foreign company. On Oct. 28, state authorities signed a “nature conservation agreement” with a Singaporean firm, Hoch Standard Pte. Ltd., and involving an Australian management consultancy called Tierra Australia. The deal ostensibly gave Hoch Standard the right to sell credits for carbon and other natural capital, such as clean water, from “over 2 million hectares (4.9 million acres)” of forested land for the next 100-200 years, according to Peter Burgess, Tierra Australia’s CEO. Mongabay learned of the agreement from several anonymously shared documents and first reported its signing on Nov. 9. A micro-hydropower catchment system used by forest communities to generate electricity in Sabah’s Crocker Range. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay. The news arrived in Sabah against the backdrop of the U.N. climate conference held in early November in Glasgow, Scotland. Governments and companies at the conference, known as COP26, announced their intentions to funnel billions of dollars toward ending deforestation, boosting forest restoration, and supporting Indigenous-led land management to offset carbon emissions. Burgess also said his business partner, Stan Golokin, a Sabahan, was at the conference raising funds for the agreement. At the same time, rights&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/details-emerge-around-closed-door-carbon-deal-in-malaysian-borneo/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Bornean communities locked into 2-million-hectare carbon deal they don’t know about</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/bornean-communities-locked-into-2-million-hectare-carbon-deal-they-dont-know-about/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Nov 2021 19:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, Sabah, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Carbon Credits, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Market, Carbon Offsets, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, climate finance, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Culture, Deforestation, Degraded Lands, Ecosystem Services, Ecosystems, Environment, Finance, Forest Carbon, forest degradation, Forests, Green, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Landscape Restoration, Logging, Mining, Nature-based climate solutions, Palm Oil, Payments For Ecosystem Services, Politics, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Pulp And Paper, Rainforests, Redd, Reforestation, Restoration, Solutions, Sustainable Forest Management, Timber, Traditional People, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Update Feb. 10, 2022: Sabah&#8217;s attorney general says the consent of Indigenous communities is required for this agreement to move forward. Read the update here. Leaders in Sabah, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo, have signed a profit-sharing deal to market carbon and other natural capital from more than 2 million hectares (4.9 million [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Update Feb. 10, 2022: Sabah&#8217;s attorney general says the consent of Indigenous communities is required for this agreement to move forward. Read the update here. Leaders in Sabah, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo, have signed a profit-sharing deal to market carbon and other natural capital from more than 2 million hectares (4.9 million acres) of the state’s forests for at least the next 100 years. But the communities living in and around those forests know next to nothing about it. The “nature conservation agreement,” brokered by an Australian consultancy called Tierra Australia, is aimed at the restoration of ecosystems. That would allow the sale of credits for carbon and other ecosystem services to companies seeking to meet sustainability goals, such as reducing their carbon footprints by offsetting their emissions. Under the terms of the deal, Tierra Australia and its partners will receive 30% of the profits from the credits for natural capital sold for the next 100-200 years, according to Peter Burgess, the company’s CEO. He said the remaining 70% would go to the Sabah state government to fund economic development for people living in and around the forests. “We’re going to employ [community members] — gainfully employ them — back into restoring jungles,” Burgess told Mongabay. But, he said, “They actually don’t know that their jungles have been conserved, have been signed up and are going to be conserved for 200 years.” Read a November 24, 2021 update on this developing story here. A man fishes in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/bornean-communities-locked-into-2-million-hectare-carbon-deal-they-dont-know-about/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Straight outta Borneo: New gecko species just dropped</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/straight-outta-borneo-new-gecko-species-just-dropped/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Nov 2021 15:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Ahmad Supardi]]>
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						<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Malaysia, Sabah, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Herps, Logging, New Discovery, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Reptiles, Research, Species Discovery, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[BENGKULU, Indonesia — Scientists have recently described a new species of gecko from Borneo, highlighting the undiscovered rich biodiversity of the world’s third-largest island. Cyrtodactylus hamidyi, or the Hamidy bent-toed gecko, was introduced to the scientific world in a paper published in August in the journal Zootaxa. Researchers named the gecko after leading Indonesian herpetologist [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[BENGKULU, Indonesia — Scientists have recently described a new species of gecko from Borneo, highlighting the undiscovered rich biodiversity of the world’s third-largest island. Cyrtodactylus hamidyi, or the Hamidy bent-toed gecko, was introduced to the scientific world in a paper published in August in the journal Zootaxa. Researchers named the gecko after leading Indonesian herpetologist Amir Hamidy, who has himself been prolific in identifying new-to-science species of reptiles and amphibians. The authors said the new gecko species was easily differentiated from others by the number of its tubercles, its ventral scales, and the presence of pores in the male’s precloacal pit, which are absent in females. “Further study is needed to reveal its molecular phylogenetic position and biogeographical history,” the paper says. Collected specimen of Cyrtodactylus hamidyi. Image courtesy of Awal Riyanto et al. (2021). The researchers — a group of scientists from Indonesia, Japan and the U.S. — had analyzed specimens collected from East Kalimantan, a province in the Indonesian part of Borneo, and Sabah in Malaysian Borneo. They said C. hamidyi is one of four species newly described as part of their wider efforts to gain a better understanding of the complex biodiversity of Borneo. “The finding has told us to pay more attention to Kalimantan [Indonesian Borneo] in order to reveal more of the Cyrtodactylus diversity,” said lead author Awal Riyanto, a scientist with the Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI). Borneo is one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots, where the forests hold&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/straight-outta-borneo-new-gecko-species-just-dropped/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-248829</doi>				</item>
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					<title>In a sea of oil palms, even monitor lizards need islands of natural forest</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/in-a-sea-of-oil-palms-even-monitor-lizards-need-islands-of-natural-forest/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Oct 2021 12:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Carolyn Cowan]]>
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						<![CDATA[Carolyncowan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, Sabah, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Palm Oil, Plantations, Rainforests, Reptiles, Rivers, Trapping, Tropical Deforestation, Tropical Forests, Tropics, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Kinabatangan River rises in the beating heart of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, where ancient primary forest cloaks the slopes of steep-sided mountains. As it meanders east toward the Sulu Sea, the river traverses floodplains overrun by vast monocultures. Regimented rows of oil palms claw at the thin weft of natural forest that lines the Kinabatangan’s [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Kinabatangan River rises in the beating heart of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, where ancient primary forest cloaks the slopes of steep-sided mountains. As it meanders east toward the Sulu Sea, the river traverses floodplains overrun by vast monocultures. Regimented rows of oil palms claw at the thin weft of natural forest that lines the Kinabatangan’s course. This fragile lifeline is home to some of the region’s most spectacular species, including Bornean elephants (Elephas maximus borneensis), orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) and proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus). Now, scientists have found that the forested river corridor, designated in 2005 as the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary, is also vital for the somewhat less glamorous Asian water monitor lizard (Varanus salvator). As both predators and scavengers, Asian water monitor lizards are known to flourish in human-impacted landscapes, including oil palm plantations, where they thrive on an abundance of leftovers and rodent prey. Prior research has even shown that they fare better in plantations than natural habitats. However, this doesn’t appear to be the case in the fragmented wastes of the Kinabatangan floodplain. According to the findings of a new study, led by scientists from Cardiff University, U.K., in collaboration with the Sabah Wildlife Department, the Kinabatangan lizards are heavily dependent on patches of natural forest near oil palm plantations for key resources, such as breeding habitat and shelter. The researchers, who published their results in PLOS One, found far greater numbers of lizards in natural forest patches near oil palm plantations than in the plantations themselves. The&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/in-a-sea-of-oil-palms-even-monitor-lizards-need-islands-of-natural-forest/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-248047</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Borneo’s bearded pigs and traditional hunters adapted to oil palms. Then came swine fever</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/borneos-bearded-pigs-and-traditional-hunters-adapted-to-oil-palms-then-came-swine-fever/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Sep 2021 13:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sheryl Lee Tian Tong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sheryl Lee Tian Tong]]>
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							<![CDATA[Atlantic Forest, Borneo, Malaysia, and Sabah]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animals, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Business, Cities, Conservation, Culture, Deforestation, Development, Diseases, Ecology, Ecosystems, Environment, Environmental Policy, Forest Fragmentation, Forest Loss, Forests, Governance, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Hunting, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Mammals, Palm Oil, Pandemics, Plantations, Primary Forests, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, Transmigration, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[It’s easier to spot the bristly, gray-brown hide of a Bornean bearded pig (Sus barbatus) ambling through orderly rows of oil palm trees, than amid a dense tropical forest. But modern-day pig hunting in plantations brings its own challenges. The animals are more skittish. They are sensitive to the sound of gunshots and the smell [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[It’s easier to spot the bristly, gray-brown hide of a Bornean bearded pig (Sus barbatus) ambling through orderly rows of oil palm trees, than amid a dense tropical forest. But modern-day pig hunting in plantations brings its own challenges. The animals are more skittish. They are sensitive to the sound of gunshots and the smell of gunpowder. Once aware of a human presence, they bolt. It wasn’t always this way. Indigenous Kadazandusun-Murut (KDM) hunters, who have for centuries tracked wild pigs through the forests of Sabah, Malaysia, reported that their prey never used to be so fearful of humans. In the past, pigs that encountered hunters “wouldn’t run,” but “only looked.” Today’s pigs, however, are smarter: quicker to flee and harder to catch. “Now the pig has got a high school certificate,” hunters told researchers, in a new study published August in People and Nature. The study, which investigates how KDM bearded pig hunting practices have changed in recent decades with oil palm expansion and urbanization, found it wasn’t just the pigs’ behavior that was different: hunting patterns had adapted in response, too. A bearded pig peering through the forest. Photo by Jessica Suarez. Previously, hunters mainly headed to forests or mangroves to hunt pigs in traditional ways: with dogs and a spear, on foot with a gun, or using snares. But as industrial and smallholder oil palm plantations steadily replace forests, pigs and hunters are increasingly altering their behavior and practices to fit this new landscape. According to hunters,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/borneos-bearded-pigs-and-traditional-hunters-adapted-to-oil-palms-then-came-swine-fever/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-246901</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Highway cutting through Heart of Borneo poised to be ‘very, very bad’</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/highway-cutting-through-heart-of-borneo-poised-to-be-very-very-bad/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Aug 2021 13:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sheryl Lee Tian Tong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sheryl Lee Tian Tong]]>
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							<![CDATA[Borneo, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Malaysia, North Kalimantan, Sabah, and Sarawak]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Agriculture, Animals, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Business, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Culture, Deforestation, Development, Ecology, Ecosystems, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Policy, Forest Fragmentation, Forest Loss, Forests, Governance, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Infrastructure, Land Rights, Logging, Mammals, Natural Resources, Orangutans, Palm Oil, Plantations, Primary Forests, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Roads, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Sun Bears, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, Transmigration, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Every few years, stretches of Borneo’s towering dipterocarp trees fruit in a synchronized pulse. In those months, the air is rich with brown, winged fruit, which fall and spin to the forest floor. These are sites where life gathers to feast in momentary abundance: bearded pigs (Sus barbatus), sun bears (Helarctos malayanus), orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Every few years, stretches of Borneo’s towering dipterocarp trees fruit in a synchronized pulse. In those months, the air is rich with brown, winged fruit, which fall and spin to the forest floor. These are sites where life gathers to feast in momentary abundance: bearded pigs (Sus barbatus), sun bears (Helarctos malayanus), orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) and more. To get to these fruiting sites, some species trek for hundreds of kilometers. Their migration is critical to Borneo’s ecosystems, which are some of the richest in the world. They cross forests but also national borders: Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei all own parts of Borneo, making it one of the largest transboundary rainforests on the planet. A pair of sun bears (Helarctos malayanus) in a tree. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. In 2007, the three countries signed a voluntary pact to conserve one-third of its land: a mostly intact, 22-million-hectare (54-million-acre) stretch named the Heart of Borneo. Now, this agreement is breaking up as they pursue a new collective ambition: the Pan Borneo Highway, a 5,324-kilometer (3,308-mile) road network that will link Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia to Kalimantan in Indonesia, and Brunei. While the new highway could spur economic development in remote villages, it also carves into protected areas in the Heart of Borneo, opening them up for resource extraction. In particular, the roads could fast-track development of a new “oil palm belt,” with disastrous consequences for both wildlife and Indigenous people&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/highway-cutting-through-heart-of-borneo-poised-to-be-very-very-bad/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-246247</doi>				</item>
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					<title>In the Borneo canopy, life thrives in surprising ways, camera-trap study shows</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/in-the-borneo-canopy-life-thrives-in-surprising-ways-camera-trap-study-shows/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Aug 2021 09:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Carolyn Cowan]]>
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						<![CDATA[Carolyncowan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, Sabah, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Camera Trapping, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Environment, Forests, Mammals, Monitoring, Rainforests, Technology, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[In her spare time as a research assistant in the forests of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, Jessica Haysom turned to perusing mammal field guides. She found herself especially intrigued by the vast number of animals that live high in the Bornean forest canopy, about which next to nothing is known. “The more I read, the more [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In her spare time as a research assistant in the forests of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, Jessica Haysom turned to perusing mammal field guides. She found herself especially intrigued by the vast number of animals that live high in the Bornean forest canopy, about which next to nothing is known. “The more I read, the more I realized that there was so much going on in the canopy which very few people were studying,” she said. Now, she’s uncovering the secrets of that lofty realm. In a recent study in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Haysom and her team took cameras up into the trees, completing the first in-depth and systematic camera-trapping survey of an arboreal mammal community in Southeast Asia. The study reveals insights into Sabah’s tree-dwelling mammals, evidence of new behaviors, and the first ever photograph of a rare flying rodent. “For a long time, we&#8217;ve only studied what&#8217;s on the ground because that&#8217;s really all that we&#8217;ve had access to,” Haysom, a doctoral student at the University of Kent, U.K., told Mongabay. “But the canopy is just as important and it would be foolish to ignore it because there&#8217;s so much that&#8217;s going on up there.” Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) mother and baby photographed in the trees in a logged forest. The researchers observed orangutan family groups on several occasions during tree fruiting periods. Image courtesy of Jessica Haysom/Durrell Institute of Conservation &amp; Ecology (DICE), University of Kent Into the canopy Arboreal, or tree-dwelling, mammals play a vital&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/in-the-borneo-canopy-life-thrives-in-surprising-ways-camera-trap-study-shows/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>NGOs call for alternative routes for Bornean road to avoid wildlife habitat</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/ngos-call-for-alternative-routes-for-bornean-road-to-avoid-wildlife-habitat/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Jun 2021 12:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sheryl Lee Tian Tong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sheryl Lee Tian Tong]]>
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							<![CDATA[Southeast Asian infrastructure]]>
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							<![CDATA[Borneo, Malaysia, and Sabah]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Animals, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Conservation, Deforestation, Ecology, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Infrastructure, Land Rights, Mammals, Palm Oil, Rainforests, Roads, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Malaysian scientists and activists have called on road planners in the Bornean state of Sabah to reconsider a 13-kilometer (8-mile) stretch of the Pan Borneo Highway that will cut through a protected forest reserve with a dense concentration of elephants when built. The current planned route runs through the Tawai Forest Reserve, a Class I [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Malaysian scientists and activists have called on road planners in the Bornean state of Sabah to reconsider a 13-kilometer (8-mile) stretch of the Pan Borneo Highway that will cut through a protected forest reserve with a dense concentration of elephants when built. The current planned route runs through the Tawai Forest Reserve, a Class I protection forest in central Sabah that’s home to orangutans, clouded leopards, Bornean pygmy elephants and other endangered species. It also passes through 30 km (19 mi) of elephant range while overlapping extensively with heavily used elephant migration paths within the reserve. In its June 16 statement, Coalition Humans Habitats Highways (Coalition 3H) urged the Sabah government to adopt one of its two proposed alternative routes or risk impacting endangered wildlife populations in the area. It also called on authorities to champion “the formation of a Joint Committee” that would consolidate field data and help road planners make informed decisions on the best route for the four-lane highway. A massive infrastructure project that aims to link the Bornean states of Sabah and Sarawak to provinces in Indonesia, the Pan Borneo Highway involves the expansion or construction of more than 2,000 km (1,200 mi) of road through eastern Malaysia. Proponents say the highway will boost economic development in the region, but sections of its planned route, including the Tawai reserve stretch, have raised concern among scientists and activists. The Tawai stretch was not been part of the state government’s initial plans. Instead of constructing a new road&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/ngos-call-for-alternative-routes-for-bornean-road-to-avoid-wildlife-habitat/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>An owl not seen in over a century makes a brief return — then vanishes again</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/an-owl-not-seen-in-over-a-century-makes-a-brief-return-then-vanishes-again/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 May 2021 22:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Romi Castagnino]]>
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						<![CDATA[Romi Castagnino]]>
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							<![CDATA[Borneo, Malaysia, Sabah, Southeast Asia, and Sumatra]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Climate Change, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Monitoring, Montane Forests, Owls, Protected Areas, Rediscovered Species, Research, Surveying, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Bornean subspecies of the Rajah scops-owl (Otus brookii) was first described from the montane forests of the Malaysian state of Sabah in 1892. Since then, however, its whereabouts have been a mystery. It was not until 2016 that a group of researchers documented the first sighting of a live individual in more than a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Bornean subspecies of the Rajah scops-owl (Otus brookii) was first described from the montane forests of the Malaysian state of Sabah in 1892. Since then, however, its whereabouts have been a mystery. It was not until 2016 that a group of researchers documented the first sighting of a live individual in more than a century, and due to its rarity, scientists believe it could be its own species. The findings were reported April 28 in The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. That May 4, 2016, rediscovery of the Bornean Rajah scops-owl (O. b. brookii) was part of a 10-year study of avian life-history evolution on Mount Kinabalu in Borneo. The project, led by Thomas E. Martin, a wildlife biologist with the Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Montana, required intensively searching for nests and gathering ecological information about birds. After seven years of working up to 10 hours per day, six days a week, the team accidentally came across O. b. brookii. The rediscovery of O. b. brookii took place in the montane forests of Mount Kinabalu at an elevation of 1,650 meters (5,400 feet). Image by Oscark via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Andy Boyce, an avian ecologist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s (SCBI) Conservation Ecology Center, happened to be working at a lab in Kinabalu National Park when he was notified by technician Keegan Tranquillo about the sighting of a bird that differed in appearance from the more common mountain scops-owl (O. spilocephalus luciae).&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/an-owl-not-seen-in-over-a-century-makes-a-brief-return-then-vanishes-again/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-242594</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Forest patches amid agriculture are key to orangutan survival: Study</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/forest-patches-amid-agriculture-are-key-to-orangutan-survival-study/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/forest-patches-amid-agriculture-are-key-to-orangutan-survival-study/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>26 Feb 2021 14:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Great Apes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Malaysia, Sabah, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Agriculture, Animal Behavior, Animals, Apes, Biodiversity, Certification, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Deforestation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Fires, Forestry, Forests, Great Apes, Green, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Illegal Logging, Logging, Orangutans, Palm Oil, Pet Trade, Poaching, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Research, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Threats To Rainforests, Timber, Traditional People, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, Wildlife Rescues, and Wildlife Trade]]>
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							<![CDATA[Over the past two decades, orangutan researcher Marc Ancrenaz watched as a tidal wave of oil palm has engulfed his once-forested research sites in northern Borneo. When he would find an orangutan in a patch of forest surrounded by planted palms, he said he figured the animal would soon disappear. But as the months and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Over the past two decades, orangutan researcher Marc Ancrenaz watched as a tidal wave of oil palm has engulfed his once-forested research sites in northern Borneo. When he would find an orangutan in a patch of forest surrounded by planted palms, he said he figured the animal would soon disappear. But as the months and years rolled on, some of those orangutans stayed where they were, Ancrenaz said. Females turned up with babies clinging to their bellies, and he would occasionally spot males swaggering on the ground between the palms. “Year after year, they were still there,” he said. A male orangutan in Indonesian Borneo. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. Ancrenaz, a biologist and director of the conservation organization HUTAN, works along the Kinabatangan River in northeastern Sabah, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo. In few places in Southeast Asia is the dominance of oil palm more apparent than in the Kinabatangan region, and it’s had a withering effect on the forests — and orangutan habitat. “What is really surprising to us is that even in this super-degraded landscape where the forest is nearly gone, we still find orangutan in the plantations,” Ancrenaz said. Their continued presence suggested that Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) were adapting to this changing landscape. But it wasn’t clear whether this was a local anomaly or something more common throughout the orangutan’s range. At first, Ancrenaz said he suspected it might be something unique about the Kinabatangan. Many people living nearby practice Islam and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/forest-patches-amid-agriculture-are-key-to-orangutan-survival-study/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-240006</doi>				</item>
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					<title>In Malaysian Borneo&#8217;s rainforests, powerful state governments set their own rules</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/in-malaysian-borneos-rainforests-powerful-state-government-set-their-own-rules/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/in-malaysian-borneos-rainforests-powerful-state-government-set-their-own-rules/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>18 Feb 2021 18:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Danielle Keeton-Olsen]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, Sabah, Sarawak, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Forests, Governance, Logging, Palm Oil, Politics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Famed for its caves and karst ecosystems, Gunung Mulu National Park in Malaysian Borneo’s Sarawak state is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, home to more than 81 mammal species, 270 varieties of bird and more than 130 reptiles and amphibians. In 2018, a wave of protest erupted when the public learned that the Sarawak government [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Famed for its caves and karst ecosystems, Gunung Mulu National Park in Malaysian Borneo’s Sarawak state is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, home to more than 81 mammal species, 270 varieties of bird and more than 130 reptiles and amphibians. In 2018, a wave of protest erupted when the public learned that the Sarawak government had granted the company Radiant Lagoon two oil palm concessions, amounting to 4,400 hectares (10,900 acres) of secondary rainforest bordering the western edge of the park. The news that trees were being felled in the concession alarmed local and international NGOs who said they feared the proposed plantations would damage Gunung Mulu&#8217;s biodiversity and questioned the secretive way in which the concession had originally been granted a decade earlier. Indigenous Penan and Berawan communities in the area also protested as the company began clearing the forest, saying the area was a crucial part of their traditional land, and that they had not been consulted. Objections were also quietly raised by officials from Malaysia&#8217;s central government, including then-Primary Industries Minister Teresa Kok, who said she confronted a top Sarawak official about the plantations. Still, Kok was careful to frame the matter as falling under the purview of the state government, which should act in the interests of the state. Though the company withdrew much of its machinery and has halted clearing since late 2019, the controversy over the concessions exemplifies the tensions that can arise between the environmental policies of Malaysia&#8217;s central government and the autonomous&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/in-malaysian-borneos-rainforests-powerful-state-government-set-their-own-rules/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-239752</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Conservationists replant legal palm oil plantation with forest in Borneo</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/conservationists-replant-legal-palm-oil-plantation-with-forest-in-borneo/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Nov 2020 12:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Saving Life on Earth: Words on the Wild]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, Sabah, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Deforestation, Ecosystems, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Governance, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Mammals, Orangutans, Palm Oil, Plantations, Politics, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Reforestation, Restoration, Solutions, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, and Wildlife Corridors]]>
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							<![CDATA[In Malaysia’s Bornean state of Sabah, a small NGO is replanting forest over land that was once a legally operating oil palm plantation — essentially reversing time for a small swath of land that, when finished, will reconnect two massive protected areas. The Rhino and Forest Fund (RFF) says the burgeoning 800-meter-wide (2,600-foot) wildlife corridor [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In Malaysia’s Bornean state of Sabah, a small NGO is replanting forest over land that was once a legally operating oil palm plantation — essentially reversing time for a small swath of land that, when finished, will reconnect two massive protected areas. The Rhino and Forest Fund (RFF) says the burgeoning 800-meter-wide (2,600-foot) wildlife corridor will benefit numerous endangered species, including Bornean elephants, storm storks, and perhaps the world’s largest remaining population of Bornean banteng (Bos javanicus lowi), a type of wild cattle. “Our project is probably the first case where private oil palm land has been bought over for protection and restoration,” says Robert Risch, executive director of RFF, who notes that while oil palm plantations have been restored to forest before, it’s usually involved reforesting illegally cultivated plantations, not legal ones that have been purchased back. A drone photo of the palm oil plantation and adjacent forest in question. Photo courtesy of RFF. The land in question sits between Tabin Wildlife Reserve and Kulamba Wildlife Reserve and will provide the first land connectivity between these two protected areas in decades. Both Tabin and Kulamba are surrounded entirely by either oil palms or mangrove swamps, making it difficult, if not impossible, for some species to cross between these two areas. RFF says it hopes its new work will change that. “The location of the purchased land parcels couldn&#8217;t be better,” Risch notes. To complete the project, RFF purchased 65 hectares (160 acres) of land using donations: 50 hectares (124&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/conservationists-replant-legal-palm-oil-plantation-with-forest-in-borneo/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-236598</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Hotter tropics may worsen climate change, reforestation could lessen it: Studies</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/hotter-tropics-may-worsen-climate-change-reforestation-could-lessen-it-studies/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Oct 2020 13:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Taran Volckhausen]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central America, Global, Latin America, Malaysia, Panama, Sabah, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[carbon, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Climate Science, Conservation, Environment, Forest Carbon, forest degradation, Forests, Green, Landscape Restoration, Logging, Rainforests, Reforestation, Research, Restoration, Soil Carbon, Tropical Deforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[One recent study shows how hotter tropical forests may add significantly to climate change woes. But another suggests how active restoration of degraded tropical forests could help avoid climate disaster. ]]>
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							<![CDATA[Researcher Ben Turner works in a soil pit to research soil carbon releases on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Image by Sean Mattson. Tropical rainforests may not be known for their cool climates, but they are known for keeping the climate cool. Storing an estimated 25% of the world’s carbon, tropical forests play a leading role in soaking up human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. The Amazon forest alone sequesters an estimated 90 to 140 billion tons of carbon, the equivalent of 9 to 14 decades of human CO2 emissions. While scientists know tropical rainforests play a pivotal role in regulating the world’s climate, they still have a lot to learn about what global warming means for the future of those forests. But two recent studies have provided surprising revelations that could clarify our views on the interaction between climate change and tropical forests going forward. The first study published in Nature suggests bad news: that a hotter climate could release a great deal more carbon from tropical soils than previously assumed. This means, alongside human fossil fuel emissions, tropical forests could become another potent contributor to global warming once the climate heats up past a certain threshold. Another recent study published in Science offers some good news: finding that the tropics could in future serve as a powerful carbon sink, if degraded forests are actively restored. Active tropical forest restoration could be a key tool for lowering atmospheric CO2 concentrations, reversing the greenhouse effect to some degree, and helping moderate global temperatures.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/hotter-tropics-may-worsen-climate-change-reforestation-could-lessen-it-studies/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>‘Saving sun bears’: Q&#038;A with book author Sarah Pye</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/saving-sun-bears-qa-with-book-author-sarah-pye/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Jun 2020 13:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Almost Famous Animals]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, China, Malaysia, Sabah, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animals, Bears, Biodiversity, Books, Conservation, COVID-19, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Forestry, Forests, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Hunting, Illegal Logging, Logging, Mammals, National Parks, Natural Resources, Parks, Poaching, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Rehabilitation, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Sun Bears, Threats To Rainforests, Timber, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Traditional People, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, Wildlife Rehabilitation, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[In his 2006 book, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, science writer David Quammen says, “Some people admire soldiers, or surgeons, or firemen, or astrophysicists, or medical missionaries, or cowboys. I admire field biologists.” Quammen wrote that “field biologists are, on the whole, a guild of extraordinary people — smart, passionate, patient, congenial, and physically as well [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In his 2006 book, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, science writer David Quammen says, “Some people admire soldiers, or surgeons, or firemen, or astrophysicists, or medical missionaries, or cowboys. I admire field biologists.” Quammen wrote that “field biologists are, on the whole, a guild of extraordinary people — smart, passionate, patient, congenial, and physically as well as intellectually tough.” That’s an apt description of wildlife biologist Wong Siew Te, whose story author Sarah Pye captures in her new book, Saving Sun Bears. Wong is the CEO of the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre, a rescue and education facility that he founded in 2008 in the Malaysian state of Sabah. The center cares for orphaned and confiscated Malayan sun bears (Helarctos malayanus). Currently, more than 40 of them reside in the rainforest habitat of the center, and in 2019, more than 84,000 visitors came to see them. Pye’s book traces Wong’s path from his birthplace in the state of Penang in peninsular Malaysia through Taiwan, where he studied animal husbandry and met his wife, to Montana, where he tracked grizzlies and black bears and where his children were born. It was a nudge from Wong’s professor and future research adviser, Chris Servheen at the University of Montana, that intertwined his future with the sun bear’s. But as much as Saving Sun Bears is a biography of Wong and his relationship with this still-little-known rainforest-dwelling bear, it’s also a clarion call — first, to save the sun bear, a cause Pye herself has&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/saving-sun-bears-qa-with-book-author-sarah-pye/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>In Borneo, building a nest box &#8212; and a future for conservation (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/02/in-borneo-building-a-nest-box-and-a-future-for-conservation-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Feb 2020 15:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Christina Imrich]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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							<![CDATA[Malaysia, Sabah, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Birds, Commentary, Conservation, Environment, Research, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Every day, tourists to lodges along the Kinabatangan River catch glimpses of Borneo’s “Big Five”: orangutan, proboscis monkey, pygmy elephant, rhinoceros hornbill, and estuarine crocodile. I wish I could tell you this reflected their thriving populations. In fact, the narrow strips of land that abut the river are the last remaining forest patches in the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Every day, tourists to lodges along the Kinabatangan River catch glimpses of Borneo’s “Big Five”: orangutan, proboscis monkey, pygmy elephant, rhinoceros hornbill, and estuarine crocodile. I wish I could tell you this reflected their thriving populations. In fact, the narrow strips of land that abut the river are the last remaining forest patches in the area, loosely protected from expanding palm oil plantations. There is nowhere else for the animals to go. It was with mixed emotions that I visited the river in July, hoping to see the Big Five for myself. While I didn’t see them all, I did get to witness something even more inspiring: a team of rising conservation leaders that has been working tirelessly and with abundant creativity to create more space for these amazing animals. For 35 years, the Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) has offered seed funding, training, and networking support to hundreds of teams of conservationists all over the world. The core team for the group I visited in Sabah, Malaysia on the island of Borneo are a trio of CLP alumni conserving hornbills. Ravinder Kaur brings the scientific expertise. I’ve gotten to know her through my role managing parts of the program for the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Ravin’s partners include her husband, Sanjitpaal Singh, and Helson Hassan. Amidi Majinun recently joined them. Sanjit provides the photos and videos that capture public attention. The team shares responsibility for monitoring hornbill nests eight hours a day, six days a week. They track what and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/02/in-borneo-building-a-nest-box-and-a-future-for-conservation-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Malaysia’s last Sumatran rhino dies, leaving Indonesia as the final refuge</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/11/malaysias-last-sumatran-rhino-dies-leaving-indonesia-as-the-final-refuge/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Nov 2019 07:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Asian Rhinos]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Malaysia, Sabah, and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Governance, Mammals, Politics, Rainforests, Rhinos, Sumatran Rhino, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) is now extinct in Malaysia following the death of its last captive individual, Iman, over the weekend. The fate of this critically endangered species now rests with a tiny population in Indonesia. Iman, a female rhino, died on the late afternoon of Nov. 23 at a captive facility in the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) is now extinct in Malaysia following the death of its last captive individual, Iman, over the weekend. The fate of this critically endangered species now rests with a tiny population in Indonesia. Iman, a female rhino, died on the late afternoon of Nov. 23 at a captive facility in the Malaysian Bornean state of Sabah, according to the local wildlife department. “Its death was a natural one, and the immediate cause has been categorised as shock,” said Christina Liew, the state environment minister, said as quoted by local media. “Iman was given the very best care and attention ever since her capture in March 2014 right up to the moment she passed. No one could have done more,” Liew added. Iman, the last female Sumatran rhino in Malaysia. Image courtesy of the Borneo Rhino Alliance (BORA). In her last few days, Iman’s health had deteriorated, according to news reports. She had been battling massive blood loss from a ruptured uterine tumor over the past couple of years, a condition that almost killed her on previous occasions. “But we knew that she was starting to suffer significant pain from the growing pressure of the tumors into the bladder,” Augustine Tuuga, the director of the Sabah Wildlife Department, said as quoted by local media. Iman was believed to be 25 years old when she died. She was named after a river near where she was discovered and captured in Sabah’s Danuw Valley for a captive-breeding program. “You&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/11/malaysias-last-sumatran-rhino-dies-leaving-indonesia-as-the-final-refuge/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Malaysian attempt at Sumatran rhino IVF fails on low quality of sperm</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/10/sumatran-rhino-ivf-malaysia-indonesia-fertilization/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Oct 2019 08:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — A recent effort by scientists to produce a Sumatran rhino embryo using egg and sperm samples taken from the last of the species in Malaysia has failed, according to officials. Those involved in the attempt had previously cautioned that there was a low chance of success, given the poor quality of the genetic [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — A recent effort by scientists to produce a Sumatran rhino embryo using egg and sperm samples taken from the last of the species in Malaysia has failed, according to officials. Those involved in the attempt had previously cautioned that there was a low chance of success, given the poor quality of the genetic samples they had to work with. The egg cell was extracted on Sept. 30 from Iman, the last known Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) in Malaysia. The scientists then injected the egg with sperm from Malaysia’s last male rhino, Tam, who died this past May. His semen had been collected in 2015 and 2016 and preserved in liquid nitrogen. But the in vitro fertilization attempt on Oct. 1 failed to produce an embryo after 72 hours of incubation, Augustine Tuuga, the director of the Sabah state wildlife department, said as reported by the New Straits Time. “What we have gathered from the experts is that possibly Tam’s sperm was not of good quality,” Tuuga said. Tam’s age would have been around 60 years in human terms when his sperm was harvested. Given these circumstances, the rhino experts were not hopeful about the results. “Given that IVF in Sumatran rhino has been tried only about 6 times, we expect a high failure rate,” John Payne, the head of the Borneo Rhino Alliance (BORA), which was involved in the effort, told Mongabay in an email. “Iman’s egg cells are fine,” Payne said. “Tam’s sperm quality is likely to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/10/sumatran-rhino-ivf-malaysia-indonesia-fertilization/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Bid to breed Sumatran rhino is handicapped by bureaucratic ‘quibbling’</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/10/sumatran-rhino-breeding-indonesia-malaysia-endangered-extinction/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Oct 2019 12:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Scientists attempting a last-ditch attempt to breed the most threatened rhino species on Earth say they’re not hopeful about their latest effort, blaming government inaction for holding back their chances of success. The scientists earlier this week managed to harvest a single egg cell from Malaysia’s last living Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis), named [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Scientists attempting a last-ditch attempt to breed the most threatened rhino species on Earth say they’re not hopeful about their latest effort, blaming government inaction for holding back their chances of success. The scientists earlier this week managed to harvest a single egg cell from Malaysia’s last living Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis), named Iman. That effort was led by Thomas Hildebrandt of Germany’s Leibniz Institute of Zoo and Wildlife Research, in collaboration with the Borneo Rhino Alliance (BORA). Extracting egg cells from Iman had to be carried out with extreme care since the rhino is still recovering from a ruptured tumor in her uterus. The team caring for the rhino believed she was still fertile and producing viable eggs, or oocytes, with assistance. “In this case, only one follicle could be found, and it turned out that only one egg cell was retrieved,” John Payne, the head of BORA, told Mongabay in an email. “Iman recovered quickly and spent most of the following 24 hours in her forest paddock, coming back to be fed twice in her night barn.” A team of veterinarians and wildlife experts provide intensive care for Iman. Image courtesy of Sabah Wildlife Department. On Oct. 1, Arief Boediono, a professor from Indonesia’s Bogor Institute of Agriculture, performed a procedure at University Malaysia Sabah to inject sperm into the egg. The sperm came from Malaysia’s last male rhino, Tam, who died this past May but whose semen had been collected in 2015 and 2016 and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/10/sumatran-rhino-breeding-indonesia-malaysia-endangered-extinction/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Notes from the road: 5 revelations from traveling the Pan Borneo Highway</title>
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					<pubDate>25 Sep 2019 12:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia — In July, I traveled most of the length of the proposed Pan Borneo Highway route with the goal of trying to understand the aims, possibilities and pitfalls of this highway’s construction. The trip covered more than 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) of road travel and resulted in a six-part series containing several [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia — In July, I traveled most of the length of the proposed Pan Borneo Highway route with the goal of trying to understand the aims, possibilities and pitfalls of this highway’s construction. The trip covered more than 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) of road travel and resulted in a six-part series containing several thousand more words. The highway, a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar project connecting the Malaysian states of Sarawak and Sabah as well as the Indonesian part of the island, is supposed to encourage commerce, shuttle tourists to see the states’ wildlife and cultural riches, and generally make travel quicker and easier. But from the outset and throughout the lengthy construction process, scientists, conservationists and activists have voiced concerns that the road would divide wildlife populations, damage habitat, and bring a bevy of unwanted impacts to local (human) communities. Striking a compromise between competing priorities has proved challenging, if not altogether elusive. Part of that might be that the reality on the ground doesn’t always hew to predictions and expectations made in government offices or around the discussion tables at the NGO headquarters working to influence the course of the road. In those places, calculations aim to map out the economic largesse that the highway could funnel to communities or the statistical probabilities that its construction could wipe out the population of a given species. Without discounting the importance of those sorts of planning, the impacts of the road and its construction on the ground come across as more&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/09/notes-from-the-road-5-revelations-from-traveling-the-pan-borneo-highway/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Pan Borneo Highway development endangers the Heart of Borneo</title>
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					<pubDate>18 Sep 2019 15:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[A planned highway network in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo threatens the forests protected as part of the Heart of Borneo agreement made with Indonesia and Brunei, a new study has found. The goal of the agreement was to ensure the survival of continuous rainforest in central Borneo that houses [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A planned highway network in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo threatens the forests protected as part of the Heart of Borneo agreement made with Indonesia and Brunei, a new study has found. The goal of the agreement was to ensure the survival of continuous rainforest in central Borneo that houses wildlife populations, helps to mitigate climate change and fosters the island’s unique biology. But the construction and expansion of roads for the Pan Borneo Highway project could carve up the core of this ecosystem, the researchers who wrote the paper say. “We just know that these [roads] are going to have really severe effects in some of the last, sizable intact tracts of forest in Borneo and in the world,” William Laurance, a tropical ecologist at James Cook University in Australia and the study&#8217;s senior author, said in an interview. Construction for the Pan Borneo Highway in Sabah. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay. The team’s research, published Sept. 18 in the journal PLOS ONE, plotted out the series of new and expanded roadway construction that’s part of the multi-year Pan Borneo Highway project in Sabah. The researchers compared these plans with the locations of intact forests, parks and reserves in the state, and then they modeled the repercussions on surrounding forests. “Some of the planned highways are relatively benign, but several are flat-out dangerous,” Sean Sloan, the study’s lead author and an ecologist at James Cook University, said in a statement. “The worst roads, in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/09/pan-borneo-highway-development-threatens-to-carve-up-intact-forest/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesia agrees to attempt Sumatran rhino IVF with eggs from Malaysia</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/08/indonesia-agrees-to-attempt-sumatran-rhino-ivf-with-eggs-from-malaysia/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Aug 2019 08:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — The governments of Indonesia and Malaysia have agreed to carry out in vitro fertilization of Sumatran rhinos, heralding a breakthrough in a decades-long effort to breed the nearly extinct species in captivity. The procedure will take place in Indonesia, which has long balked at requests to send sperm to Malaysia for artificial insemination [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — The governments of Indonesia and Malaysia have agreed to carry out in vitro fertilization of Sumatran rhinos, heralding a breakthrough in a decades-long effort to breed the nearly extinct species in captivity. The procedure will take place in Indonesia, which has long balked at requests to send sperm to Malaysia for artificial insemination efforts there. Conservationists in both countries and abroad had been pushing for some kind of assisted reproductive technology for the species, whether through artificial insemination (introducing sperm taken from a male rhino into a female) or IVF, in which an egg extracted from a female is fertilized in a lab and implanted in a surrogate female. Indonesia is home to an estimated 30 to 80 Sumatran rhinos (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis), at most, while Malaysia now has just one — a female — after its last male died in May. Under the newly announced plan, researchers hope to use sperm from one of Indonesia’s captive male rhinos to fertilize eggs sent from the lone female of the species in Malaysia. “Originally the plan was to bring sperm [of the rhinos in Indonesia] there [to Malaysia], but after discussions and negotiations, it’s eventually decided to bring the eggs here [to Indonesia],” Indra Exploitasia, the director of biodiversity conservation at Indonesia’s environment ministry, told reporters in Jakarta on July 31. “We have actually agreed on this at lower levels,” she said, adding that both Indonesian and Malaysian governments were completing the administrative process. These include requirements under the Nagoya Protocol, which&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/08/indonesia-agrees-to-attempt-sumatran-rhino-ivf-with-eggs-from-malaysia/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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