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 […]
Mongabay has published two articles on Sumatran rhino which summarise nicely the story of attempts to save the genus from extinction. Wisely, the articles leave out the doomed attempts (still supported by many conservationists) to keep these rhinos in the wild, knowing that each scattered sub-population was and is too small to ensure survival. Part […]
The Sumatran Rhino is the smallest of all rhino species. They have been around for millions of years, but their time might be coming to an end. Today, there are less than 100 of these critically endangered rhinos left. In Malaysia, we have spent decades desperately working to save this species. Despite countless attempts to […]
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 […]
The Star, Tuesday February 6, 2007 Though big in size, rhinos are succumbing to pressures inflicted by a much smaller creature – man. Story by TAN CHENG LI HE was Sabah’s last hope to boost the dwindling numbers of Sumatran rhinos. But in a tragic event, Tanjung, the only remaining captive male rhino in the […]
by John Payne Humans are susceptible to the shifting baseline syndrome. We imagine that what we see from our childhood up to today is what is normal … what has been so for a long time, and what will be so for the foreseeable future. This view can be more dangerous to wildlife than poaching […]
Puntung was a 20-year-old female rhino weighing about 520 kg. Puntung is the Malay word for ‘stub’, an apt name as she lacked a front left foot. It is likely that it was torn off in a hunter’s snare trap when she was an infant. Against all odds, the damaged leg was able to heal. […]
BERNAMA June 30, 2009 LAHAD DATU, June 30 (Bernama) — The Sime Darby Foundation (SDF) and Sabah government will set up a sanctuary in the Tabin Forest Reserve for sumatran rhinos to protect the wildlife from extinction. The Borneo Rhino Sanctuary will provide a safe refuge for the endangered Bornean rhino whose range is increasingly […]