This Op-Ed by Jeremy Hance appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on 17 March 2018. There could be as few as 30 Sumatran rhinos left in the wild. Photo: Jeremy Hance In Rudyard Kipling’s classic story of how the rhino got his skin, the titular character is an unmannered lout. This is how the public […]
By RUBEN SARIO, The Star, 19 April 2010 KOTA KINABALU: Wildlife experts here remain hopeful about the future of the highly endangered Sumatran rhino following a rare picture of a 20-year-old female that is believed to be pregnant. The picture of the female rhino was captured by remote camera trap devices set up jointly by […]
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 […]
Three of Malaysia’s endangered large mammal species are experiencing contrasting futures. Populations of the Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) have dwindled to critically low numbers in Peninsular Malaysia (current estimates need to be revised) and the state of Sabah (less than 40 individuals estimated). In the latter region, a bold intervention involving the translocation of isolated […]
SAN DIEGO – Victoria, a southern white rhino at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, is pregnant. It’s an event of vital importance for a program to bring back her nearly extinct kin, the northern white rhino. The developing baby is also a southern white rhino, conceived on March 22 through artificial insemination. The pregnancy […]
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. […]
The Rhino Protection Unit based in Tabin Wildlife Reserve performs a number of vital activities that include monitoring the movement and behaviour of rhinos within the area, and keeping a vigilant look out for poachers and others that would seek to harm them. Tracking activities which include measuring footprints, monitoring wallows and salt licks is […]
SAN DIEGO – Victoria, a southern white rhino at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, is pregnant. It’s an event of vital importance for a program to bring back her nearly extinct kin, the northern white rhino. The developing baby is also a southern white rhino, conceived on March 22 through artificial insemination. The pregnancy […]
Tabin Wildlife Reserve: The successful capture of a female Sumatran rhino named Iman from a remote part of Danum Valley, and her transfer to Tabin Wildlife Reserve on 21 March, has revealed once and for all that her species is on the very edge of extinction in Malaysia. Excitement mounted amongst the people involved in […]
Borneo Rhino Alliance (BORA) is an NGO based in Sabah. Active since year 2008, BORA cares for the last three living Sumatran rhinos left in Malaysia, in managed facilities in Tabin Wildlife Reserve. Our mission is to prevent the extinction of the Sumatran rhinoceros. The Sumatran rhino is one of the most endangered animal species […]
LAHAD DATU, Malaysia – The rhino breeding center near the entrance to Danum Valley Conservation Area sits like an oasis of calm against the cacophony of beeps, woots and zaps of the surrounding jungle. So calm it’s eerie, in fact. No one is working on the grounds. There are no animals in the collection of […]
The Rhino Cup, in partnership with Borneo Rhino Alliance (Bora), aims to raise a minimum of RM100,000 towards the cost of building the Borneo Rhino Sanctuary in Danum Valley. Aside from the Polo Tournament, the event will feature a bazaar and live music from Blastique, Victor Trixter and a-marQ during the day while Gregory Ramanado […]
See more videos on the Borneo Rhino Alliance Channel On December 17 2014, BORA participated in Nottingham University’s (Malaysia Campus) Mindset Seminar series. View the presentation titled “The near extinction of the Sumatran Rhinoceros and what needs to be done to prevent the first extinction of a mammal species in Malaysia since 1932” by clicking […]
The Star, February 6, 2007 Story by TAN CHENG LI CAPTIVE breeding of Sumatran rhinos holds much promise but has so far turned out to be a costly exercise with many false starts. The rhino enclosure at the Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary – attempts at getting captive rhinos to mate and reproduce in the 90s […]
