Attempts to breed these three rhinos naturally have proven unsuccessful. Tam’s sperm quality is not ideal. Although Puntung and Iman are still producing eggs, they both have reproductive pathologies that have rendered them unable to bear a foetus. The only way the species can be saved in Malaysia is through advanced reproductive technology (ART) – […]
The Malay Mail Online, 4 June 2017 Puntung was captured in 2011 and kept at the Borneo Rhino Sanctuary in Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Lahad Datu with one other female and a male Sumatran rhino. — Picture via Borneo Rhino Sanctuary KUALA LUMPUR, June 4 — Malaysia is now left with only two Sumatran rhinoceroses after […]
IZW experts Professor Thomas Hildebrandt and Dr Robert Hermes extract eggs from Iman, assisted here by BORA staff Hassan Sani. The 4 July 2018 announcement by Professor Thomas Hildebrandt of Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research and his co-workers that embryos of white rhinos have been successfully made in vitro represents one of the […]
A Sumatran rhino wallows in a mud bath at Tabin Wildlife Reserve The phrase “doing the same thing again and again, and expecting a different result” applies egregiously to the Sumatran rhinoceros. It is clear that protecting wild populations has failed, and that natural breeding in captivity results in too few births to be a […]
NST Online By AVILA GERALDINE KOTA KINABALU: The worst has come to pass. Wildlife experts here bade a sad farewell to Puntung, one of Malaysia’s three remaining Sumatra rhinos, who was put down after a brief battle against cancer. Sabah Wildlife director Augustine Tuuga said the euthanasia procedure was performed at between 7am and 8am […]
In the hierarchy of biological classification of living and fossil organisms, two levels are well known : species and family. For example, humans are the species Homo sapiens, and they come under the family Hominidae, which includes orang-utans, gorillas and chimpanzees, as well as many extinct apes known only from fossils. Between species and family […]
Abdul Hamid Ahmad, Junaidi Payne and Zainal Zaharu Zainuddin have had a joint article published in the Debate Forum section of the Journal of Indonesian Natural History Vol 1(2): 11-22. Read the full article
Borneo Post Online, 4 June 2017 KOTA KINABALU: Sabah has lost Puntung, the Sumatran Rhino who touched the hearts of many. Sabah Wildlife Department Director Augustine Tuuga said Puntung was euthanised this morning at Tabin Wildlife Reserve. A week ago, Augustine broke the news that Puntung could no longer breathe through her left nostril and […]
Historic Press Release from Sabah Wildlife Department Kota Kinabalu, 23rd August, 2008: The Sabah Wildlife Department (SWD) successfully completed a two week long rescue operation of a single male from the critically endangered Sumatran Rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis harrissoni) subspecies. The Sumatran Rhinoceros, recognised as being on the brink of extinction, was found wandering at an […]
The recent news of the extinction of the Javan rhinoceros on mainland Asia, with the death by poaching of the last remaining female in Vietnam in 2010, prompts us to draw attention to two implications for Malaysia. Firstly, this same kind of rhino went extinct in Malaysia in the 1930s. Thus, what seems at first […]
PETALING JAYA, Malaysia, March 20, 2006 (ENS) – Poaching has reduced Malaysia’s population of Sumatran rhinos to just a small group plus a few individuals clinging to survival in the state of Sabah on the island of Borneo, according to an extensive field study conducted in 2005. Teams from nine government agencies, nongovernmental organizations and […]
05.30 am start, 9 July 2014, checking the condition of Iman’s uterus and leimyoma tumours prior to oocyte harvest. Letf to right, Dr Zainal Zahari Zainuddin (with hat, BORA veterinarian), Dr Frank Goeritz (IZW anaesthetologist), Marikus Suyat (yellow boots, BORA rhino keeper), Professor Cesare Galli (standing, white Tshirt, independent horse and rhino in vitro fertilization […]
Some rhinos in human care don’t reproduce well, which complicates efforts to sustain these important insurance populations. Scientists have worked for years to develop reliable means of artificial reproduction, with limited success. Examples are scarce: A dozen years ago, a southern white rhino was born through artificial insemination in Budapest, and a greater one-horned rhino […]
The Ministry of Environment and Forestry claims there are 63 Javan rhinos in Ujung Kulon National Park in Banten, West Java, and 100 Sumatran rhinos in Kerinci Seblat National Park between four provinces — Jambi, Bengkulu, West Sumatra and South Sumatra . “As the population of Sumatran rhinos in the wild is reaching critical levels, conservation efforts in Indonesia need to […]