Animals be Damned, Locals Want a new Bridge in Kinabatangan

Animals be Damned, Locals Want a new Bridge in Kinabatangan

Environmentalists have been up in arms over a planned new bridge that would connect the western bank of the Kinabatangan River to Sukau village, in Sabah, insisting that the bridge and a new paved road linking to it would further divide already fragmented forests in the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary….

Sabah’s Wild Elephants are Facing a Dangerous Genetic Bottleneck

Sabah’s Wild Elephants are Facing a Dangerous Genetic Bottleneck

As wildlife populations of endangered species shrink within a habitat, so does their genetic viability. With reduced gene pools, wild animals come to be increasingly at risk of inbreeding – the mating of two genetically closely related individuals. A frequent outcome of that: homozygosity, which increases their offspring’s chances of…