News from the Heart of Borneo
17 Apr 2008
Extinct Javan elephants may have been found again - in Borneo
Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia: The Borneo pygmy elephant may not be native to Borneo after all. Instead, the population could be the last survivors of the Javan elephant race – accidentally saved from extinction by the Sultan of Sulu centuries ago, a new publication suggests.
If the Borneo pygmy elephants are in fact elephants from Java, an island more than 1,200 km (800 miles) south of their current range, it could be the first known elephant translocation in history, providing scientists with critical data from a centuries-long experiment. » Read more
04 Mar 2008
Chasing rhinos in Indonesia’s Ujung Kulon National Park
How hard can it be to catch a glimpse of a beast which can weigh 2,300kg and measure over 3m in length? As a WWF team discovered, it takes patience, skill and not a little ingenuity to capture the movements of this elusive giant on film. » Read more
26 Feb 2008
Pulp and palm oil the villains in Sumatra's global climate impact and local elephant losses
Pekanbaru, Sumatra: Turning just one Sumatran province's forests and peat swamps into pulpwood and palm oil plantations is generating more annual greenhouse gas emissions than the Netherlands and rapidly driving the province's elephants into extinction, a new study by WWF and partners has found. » Read more
12 Dec 2007
Orangutan plan to curb carbon emissions
Indonesia’s new 10 year action plan for conserving orangutans will have important benefits in mitigating climate change.
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09 Aug 2007
Satellite tracking reveals threats to Borneo pygmy elephants
A new WWF study tracking pygmy elephants by satellite on the island of Borneo shows that the remaining herds of this endangered species are under threat. » Read more
24 Apr 2007
WWF captures extraordinary video of rare Borneo rhino
A video “camera trap” has captured rare footage of an elusive Borneo rhino. The two-minute video — showing the animal eating, walking to the camera and sniffing the equipment — is the first-ever footage of observing the behaviour in the wild of one of the world’s rarest rhinos. » Read more
16 Mar 2007
Making tracks with pygmy elephants in Borneo
WWF-Malaysia's field researcher and elephant tracker Englebert Dausip talks about his experience of tracking pygmy elephants in the forests of Borneo.
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15 Mar 2007
Borneo's clouded leopard identified as new cat species
Just weeks after a WWF report identified at least 52 new species of animals and plants over the past year on Borneo, scientists have discovered that the clouded leopard found on the island, as well as on Sumatra, is an entirely new species of cat. » Read more
12 Feb 2007
A third of Borneo to be conserved under new rainforest declaration
Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia and Malaysia sign an historic declaration to conserve the “Heart of Borneo” — one of the most important centres of biological diversity in the world. » Read more
12 Jan 2007
Leaders endorse Heart of Borneo declaration
A historic agreement to conserve the forests of Borneo was officially endorsed today by the heads of the three Bornean governments — Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia and Malaysia, outlining the need to protect one of the most important centres of biological diversity in the world. » Read more
