The cloud of smoke billowing over the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary in Sabah in mid-July looked plenty ominous. For hours on end “blinding smoke enveloped long stretches of the Lower Kinabatangan, which is meant to be Sabah’s prime wildlife watching eco-tourism destination,” reported The Daily Express. It remained uncertain how…

Endangered species may at times seem a bit like mythical creatures: they can be so elusive that rarely if ever may anyone catch sight of them in the wild. And so it has been with Sumatran rhinos. The critically endangered species was declared extinct last year in Malaysian Borneo, but…