Typically, closely related animal species have difficulty coexisting because they are competing for similar resources. Despite eating the same figs, binturong, small-toothed palm, masked palm, and ...

Indonesia is attempting one of the most ambitious urban construction projects in history, relocating its seat of power from ...

In the heart of the biodiverse rainforests of Borneo, a silent crisis is unfolding. The once-thriving orangutan population has continued to dwindle due to habitat destruction caused by human ...

Launching from Kota Kinabalu, a likable and busy coastal town, I took a winding and ascending five-hour bus ride to Keningau, a valley town known for growing cinnamon trees. From there, a private car ...

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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, ...

This Southeast Asian island, home to some of the world’s strangest and most iconic creatures, is a dream destination for a growing number of “mammal watchers.” A young male proboscis monkey, a species ...

Borneo was once covered in lush, dense rainforests, but they are rapidly disappearing. The Southeast Asian island, roughly three times the size of the UK, has lost half its forest cover since the ...

Borneo is home to nearly 18 million people, nearly doubling since 1980. Borneo, like New Guinea, has long had two very different populations: lowly populated, highly tribalized groups in the ...

In a groundbreaking discovery in Brunei, scientists have found two-million-year-old fossils of Dryobalanops rappa—an endangered tropical tree that still lives today. The find marks the first fossil ...

From upper left to lower right: binturong, masked palm civet, common palm civet, and small-toothed palm civet. These four species share similar ecology such as nocturnal, semi-arboreal, and frugivory.