By Brigit Katz, smithsonian.com, June 5, 2017 Back in April, a team of veterinary specialists flew to Malaysia to perform urgent dental surgery on Puntung, one of the country’s last three Sumatran rhinos. The procedure to correct Puntung’s life-threatening abscess seemed to be a success: Within hours of the operation, the rhino was chomping on tasty foliage. […]
February 23, 2014 by Justine Vaz Last chance to prevent the extinction of the rhino in Borneo The Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) remains on the brink of extinction. No evidence of the continued existence of the species in Kulamba, Kalabakan, Kuamut and even in Tabin Wildlife Reserve (TWR) emerged during year 2012. This is the […]
Iman is the last wild Sumatran rhino to have been found in Malaysia. She was captured in Danum Valley and safely transported to the Borneo Rhino Sanctuary in March 2014. This half-tonne female suffers from severe fibroids in her uterus but she retains her oestrus cycle and has so far supplied ten eggs towards the […]
This commentary by rhino expert John Payne urges the use of all available technologies to raise birth rates of Sumatran rhinos where they persist in Sabah and Sumatra. 14 January 2016 / Commentary by John Payne The announcement on 9 December 2015 of the first births of healthy puppy dogs from in vitro fertilization was […]
BORA is a non-governmental organisation established as a non-profit company under Malaysian law. BORA’s Board of Directors is chaired by Dr Abdul Hamid Ahmad, Dean, Faculty of Sustainable Agriculture, Universiti Malaysia Sabah. Other members of the Board are Dato’ Dr Dionysius Sharma, Datuk Dr Junaidi Payne, Executive Director of BORA and Ms. Jessie Yong. The […]
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Tam will join other rhinos at the Cincinnati Zoo in efforts to promote breeding success Kota Kinabalu: The State Cabinet decided unanimously Wednesday to allow the transfer of Sabah’s Sumatran rhinos such as Tam on loan to the Cincinnati Zoo in the US under a collaborative natural breeding in captivity programme to stave off the […]
South China Morning Post, 27 May 2019 The last male Sumatran rhinoceros in Malaysia has died of old age, dashing efforts to save the critically endangered species in the country. Tam the rhino, who was in his 30s, lived at a wildlife reserve in Sabah state on Borneo island since his capture in 2008, according to Christina […]
South China Morning Post, 27 May 2019 The last male Sumatran rhinoceros in Malaysia has died of old age, dashing efforts to save the critically endangered species in the country. Tam the rhino, who was in his 30s, lived at a wildlife reserve in Sabah state on Borneo island since his capture in 2008, according to Christina […]
Press Release: All-out effort by conservationists to prevent the world’s most endangered rhino species from going extinct LAHAD DATU, SABAH 14 MAY 2014 – The critically endangered Sumatran rhinoceros is still fighting for survival and in the twilight of its existence. However, all is not lost yet, thanks to the ongoing efforts by passionate and […]
NST Online by Roy Goh, 15 October 2019 KOTA KINABALU: In vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment on an egg retrieved from Iman – the last Sumatran rhino in Malaysia – failed earlier this month. Specialists attempting to save the species from extinction saw the fertilised cell degenerate within days after thawed-out sperm – harvested from Tam, […]
Almost a decade ago, Andalas’s birth at the Cincinnati Zoo was cause for much celebration. It offered hope that individuals in captivity could help to replenish the numbers of this critically endangered species. Since then, Andalas has gone from strength to strength. In 2007, it was time at last to return to Sumatra to do what […]
For Borneo Rhino Alliance (BORA), the deaths of the last native rhinos in Malaysia has prompted us to consider our next steps. This process has forced us to contemplate all that we have worked towards over these past years and the remarkable support we have received in our mission to save the Sumatran Rhino in […]
Animal care: Veterinarians Dr Hildebrand, Dr Robert Hermes and Borneo Rhinoceros Alliance’s Dr Zainal Abdul Hamid (standing) doing an ultrasound on Puntung. By Ruben Sario KOTA KINABALU: A team of veterinarians is treating a female rhino in the east coast Lahad Datu district in the hope that the animal will eventually be able to breed. […]