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One of man’s closest and most enigmatic cousins, the Orang Utan, may disappear from the earth in just five years! Blame the booming palm oil industry, illegal logging and fires that are eating their rainforest habitat away even more rapidly than had..
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AP, Kuala Lumpur
Conservationists said Tuesday they were planning a big push to protect Borneo’s orangutans, pygmy elephants and other endangered wildlife by purchasing land from...
made popular Oct 28 2008
The great apes, namely the gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and the orangutans are our closest genetic relatives. But that didn’t stop us from slaughtering them as...
made popular Jul 8 2008
AP, Jakarta
More than 700 passengers were safely evacuated after an Indonesian ferry caught fire Sunday while nearing its destination on the island of Borneo, police said.The ship...
made popular May 18 2008
A male orangutan, clinging precariously to overhanging branches, flails the water with a pole, trying desperately to spear a passing fish.
It is the first time one has...
made popular Apr 29 2008
AP, Kuala Lumpur
Borneo’s pygmy elephants may be descendants of an extinct Javan elephant race, saved by chance by an 18th century ruler, according to a new study released...
made popular Apr 17 2008
The first lungless frog has been discovered lurking in the jungles of Borneo. The enigmatic amphibian, dubbed Barbourula kalimantanensis, apparently gets all the oxygen...
made popular Apr 8 2008
Quite often, we waste our earnings on apparently unimportant ostentatious items. If a small fraction of our money could be spent on making our planet greener and that...
made popular Mar 25 2008
A new lizard species is discovered recently in Borneo by a researcher while conducting field research. More than 15 years of fieldwork experience has helped Austin...
made popular Jan 3 2007
Glen Barry in Rainforest Portal rightly said natural ancient rainforests are too valuable to be replaced by oil palm plantations! This reaction is on the basis of the...
made popular Feb 22 2006
There occurred a population collapse in the Bornean orangutan. A three year genetic study by wildlife geneticists from Cardiff School of Biosciences has shown this....
made popular Feb 3 2006
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Glen Barry in Rainforest Portal rightly said natural ancient rainforests are too valuable to be replaced by oil palm plantations! This reaction is on the basis of the...
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