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There are fewer than 1,000 Bornean elephants left in the wild. Logging and palm oil plantations have destroyed their habitat and conflicts with humans are on the rise. But conservationist Farina ...
The Kinabatangan River is the last major area in Malaysian Borneo’s Sabah state with a semblance of forest corridor linking ...
For the first time, scientists have discovered fossil evidence of an endangered, living tropical tree species. The ...
One study estimated that the resulting air pollution blanketing Borneo and Sumatra Islands would lead to 100,000 premature deaths. In the embers of that 2015 Southeast Asia wildfire crisis ...
In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have uncovered fossil evidence of an endangered tropical tree species for the very ...
National hammer thrower Grace Wong Xiu Mei has set her sights on breaking the 60-metre mark and achieve a podium finish at the Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi, South Korea on May 27-31. The ...
Once hailed as the lungs of South-East Asia, Borneo's rainforests are now facing unprecedented threats, having lost more than 30 per cent of their coverage over the past four decades. Climate change, ...
WHEN Ponaryo Astaman stood tall and sang Indonesia Raya at the 2007 Asian Cup, he wasn’t just leading ten other players on ...
Bornean elephants are the smallest subspecies of the Asian elephant, and are two feet (60 centimeters) shorter than their African counterparts. Found only on the island of Borneo, mostly in the ...