Bornean bay cats are rare and elusive creatures. How elusive? So elusive that the sighting of one makes the news. A group of researchers from the Sarawak Forestry Department has just spotted a specimen of the endangered species in the remote Lundu area of Sarawak. And they managed to take…

Sarawak’s Chief Minister Adenan Satem has been talking tough lately. Here’s hoping he will be acting tough too. Recently he declared a zero-tolerance policy on illegal loggers, insisting that “We will come down heavy on those who want to desecrate our environment and our biodiversity, which we should leave intact…

Slow lorises are small nocturnal primates that forage in the foliage of tropical trees and sport the physiognomy of cute teddy bears. Proboscis monkeys are reddish-brown tree-dwellers famed for their unmistakably flamboyant sniffers that make them resemble crotchety cartoon characters. Agile gibbons are long-limbed arboreal acrobats celebrated for their swaggering…

In the Hollywood movie Medicine Man, an eccentric scientist, played by Scottish actor Sean Connery, seeks to save a rainforest from destruction as he believes that its unique biodiversity holds the ingredients of new cures for debilitating human diseases. A bit of celluloid fantasy? Hardly. The health of natural environments…

Global warming, as the phenomenon’s very name suggests, affects all people around the planet in one way or another. Greenhouse gases exacerbate adverse climatic trends worldwide.  Temperature and weather fluctuations wreak havoc with natural environments. Most alarmingly, polar ice caps are melting, thereby exposing low-lying lands located close to shores…

The existence of a rare and minute class of snails – some just 0.03 inches in diameter – has just been discovered in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Though the snails are small – so small that researchers had to use a microscope to discover them in the wild – they are…

The terrible costs of the massive forest fires currently raging through Indonesia are most often calculated in tons of CO2 emitted, acres of tropical forest destroyed, human suffering and economic loss.  These factors are indeed great, but there is another victim of this circumstance – the endangered Orangutan. Borneo, an…