This is an expanded version of an article, titled A Desperate Effort to Save the Rainforest of Borneo, that appeared last month on Yale e360. Rainforest in Sabah. All photo by Rhett A. Butler. For ...
Pygmy elephants are increasingly threatened by logging and forest conversion for agriculture in their native Borneo, reports a new satellite tracking study by WWF. Researchers report that the ...
A new study has found that more than 80 percent of tropical forests in Malaysian Borneo have been heavily impacted by logging. The team used the Carnegie Landsat Analysis System-lite (CLASlite) to ...
Tropical forests in Borneo are disappearing much faster than previously thought, according to a new study. A team of Indonesian and American researchers has found that lowland forests in Kalimantan, ...
Offering affordable healthcare to communities living near forests could help reduce illegal logging and fight global warming, ...
For years, environmental and indigenous rights advocates in the forested Malaysian state of Sarawak, on the island of Borneo, have struggled against the rampant logging destroying their homes.
The tide is turning in the battle to stop the destruction of this island’s treasure trove of biodiversity The tide is turning in the battle to stop the destruction of this island’s treasure trove of ...
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A troop of 20 students went into a one-month course in Malaysian Borneo expecting to learn about the tropical rainforest's complex ecosystem, but they're coming out of it with a nice little spin-off: ...
The canopy walkway at Borneo Rainforest Lodge in Danum Valley. I never met any during my time in Sarawak, but the Penan people were one of Asia’s last true nomadic hunter-gatherer groups, championed ...
The canopy walkway at Borneo Rainforest Lodge in Danum Valley. I never met any during my time in Sarawak, but the Penan people were one of Asia’s last true nomadic hunter-gatherer groups, championed ...