An aerial view of Tabin Wildlife Reserve, the site of the Borneo Rhino Sanctuary Various measures have been taken to conserve Sabah’s rhinos since the 1980s by government and NGOs alike. Attempts were made at captive breeding at the Sepilok Orang Utan Rehablitation Centre with little success. This well-intentioned effort was hampered by inadequate knowledge […]
“Operation Sumatran Rhino: Mission Critical” is a new National Geographic Wild documentary which chronicles Malaysia’s foremost rhino scientists in their incredible quest to save this critically endangered species. The documentary premiered at the 2016 Wildlife Conservation Film Festival (WCFF) on August 24 2016. In October 2016, a very special screening of the “Operation Sumatran Rhino” […]
The little-known and smallest member of the rhinoceros family, the Sumatran rhinoceros, is critically endangered. Today between 30 and 100 are isolated on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo in Southeast Asia. In a new study, researchers urge conservationists to translocate the two island groups–representing two subspecies of the Sumatran rhino–and to create a cell […]
The Sumatran rhino is the smallest of all rhino species. It’s a two-horned rhino, covered with hair and is the closest living relative of the woolly rhinos from the ice age. Two-horned hairy rhinos have lived for millions of years and once roamed across most of South-east Asia, from southern China to the islands of […]
Click on the link to read or download the PDF document 2017 Borneo Rhino Sanctuary Annual Report BRS Jan – Dec 2017 2016 Borneo Rhino Sanctuary Annual Report BRS Jan – Dec 2016 2015 Borneo Rhino Sanctuary Six-monthly Report BRS July – Dec 2015 (English version) Borneo Rhino Sanctuary Six-monthly Report Jan – June 2015 […]
Starting in early 2017, BORA relies on Malaysian governmental funding to sustain its work to care for Tam and Iman (Puntung having passed away on 4 June 2017). The funding allows us to do all the basic tasks necessary, but does not cover engagement with Indonesia, nor maximising the frequency of harvesting sperm and eggs […]
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 […]
Current situation The current number of living individuals of the Bornean subspecies of the Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis harrissoni; also known as the Bornean rhino) is possibly around forty or less. Sabah now offers the only likely prospect for saving this sub-species, and the best prospect for saving the species in Malaysia. Based on morphological […]
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 […]
The seemingly “disastrous” story of the world’s most endangered mammal – the northern white rhino – could be rewritten by IVF, scientists claim. They used the method to produce rhino embryos with sperm from two dead males. The embryos were made using eggs from a closely related sub-species, but the scientists say the method could […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
Can a sanctuary in Indonesia keep the world’s most imperiled rhino from extinction? This article by Jeremy Hance appeared in Mongabay on June 19, 2015; visit the site to read the full article here: Bina having breakfast at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary. Photo by: Tiffany Roufs. “One percent of the world’s population,” veterinarian Zulfi Arsan […]