3rd March 2010 Sime Darby Auto Connection Sdn Bhd Branch Manager, Chris Mojingol (third from left) handing over the three vehicles to Dr Abdul Hamid (second left), with BORA Executive Director Dr Junaidi Payne (far left) and BORA Administration Officer Lonia Adam (second right). A big boost to BORA’s work was made today when three […]
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 […]
The transformation of SOS Rhino Borneo to Borneo Rhino Alliance was made possible with a fundraising lunch held in Kota Kinabalu on 17 March 2009 at which over 30 organizations and individuals contributed. Then, Sime Darby Foundation generously supported BORA to the tune of about RM12 million from July 2009 until June 2016. Without that funding, […]
BORA operates by assisting the government of Sabah primarily through Sabah Wildlife Department, the agency legally charged with conserving and managing Sabah’s wildlife. Sabah Wildlife Department and BORA survey the proposed Borneo Rhino Sanctuary site, January 2010
March 17 2009 saw LEAP helping to organise another groundbreaking conservation fundraising event with its partner organisation, BORA. A ‘RHINO RESCUE LUNCH’ was held at a leading hotel in Kota Kinabalu. The Guest of Honour was the Sabah Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment, Datuk Masidi Manjun and over 70 people participated, with representatives from […]
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 […]
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 […]
When humans are in the middle of a particular era, whatever we see and think and talk about seems normal, rational and even scientific. So it is with the prevailing human view of wildlife conservation. Human eras are made up largely of prevailing fashions. And fashions are just fashions. How to save endangered wildlife? An […]
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 […]
The old-fashioned term “preservation” is used in this Strategic Focus document because all efforts to prevent the extinction of the Sumatran rhinoceros by monitoring and guarding wild rhinos in protected areas (starting 1939 for Taman Negara, 1982 for Danum Valley, 1984 for Tabin Wildlife Reserve, 1993 for Endau Rompin Park) have failed. Wild rhinos have […]
KUALA LUMPUR, May 29 — Puntung, one of Malaysia’s last three Sumatran rhinoceros’ impending euthanasia due to skin cancer should be a wake-up call to ramp up conservation efforts of the species as it could well go extinct within the next ten years, groups have said. In a statement, WWF Malaysia pointed out that the […]
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 […]
Isolated rhinos in fragmented Sabahan forests will be captured and placed in a new rhino sanctuary in a last bid to multiply their numbers. Article by Michael Cheang, The Star, August 18 2009 AS you head into Tabin Wildlife Reserve, there is a massive tree that stands tall and proud beside the road. The tallest […]
An article by Jeremy Hance July/August 2018 in AramcoWorld. Read the full article on their website. At four o’clock in the morning on May 12, 2016, Zulfi Arsan balanced himself on a tall fence post, poised to jump into a pen with a rhinoceros. As lead veterinarian of the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary (srs) on the […]