How a crippled rhino may save a species
An interview with John Payne Puntung, a female Sumatran rhino, is captured safely in a pit trap after years of monitoring and planning in Malaysian Borneo. Photo by: Dr Zainal…
Picture of the day: tarsier rescued from palm oil plantation
A rescued Horsfield's tarsier named Lad, shortly after being released, eating an insect. Photo courtesy of Danau Girang Field Centre (DGFC). Earlier this month, biologists with Danau Girang Field Centre…
What a Bornean elephant wants: more protected forests and wildlife corridors
Putut (center) and her family, after being collared in October 2011. Photo courtesy of Benoit Goossens. Forest fragmentation and destruction is imperiling the Bornean elephant (Elephas maximus borneensis), according to…
Photos of the day: satellite tagging a 12-foot saltwater crocodile
Danau Girang Field Center (DGFC) and Wildlife Rescue Unit staff securing crocodile's powerful mouth. Photo courtesy of DGFC. Researchers in the Malaysian state of Sabah in Borneo have successfully satellite-tagged…
Wildlife official: palm oil plantations behind decline in proboscis monkeys
Young proboscis monkey. Photo courtesy of Rudi Delvaux/Danau Girang Field Center (DGFC)/Sabah Wildlife Department (SWD). The practice of palm oil plantations planting along rivers is leading to a decline in…
Animal picture of the day: tracking the world’s smallest elephant
Members of the collaring team with male, Gading. Don't worry the elephant is tranquilized. Photo courtesy of DGFC and HUTAN. Researchers have fitted three Bornean elephants with satellite collars to…