After 17 years, researchers finally unlock the mysteries of Sumatran rhino reproduction. An article by Jeremy Hance published in Mongabay on 28 SEPTEMBER 2018 As the 20th century drew to a close the Sumatran rhino captive breeding program, launched in 1984, had yet to produce a single calf. Home to the last two Sumatran rhinos […]
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General Rhino Facts about thinos from the Asian Rhino Project Herbivores All rhinoceros are herbivores – that is, they eat only plant material. Some primarily eat grass (grazers), some eat mostly leaves and branches (browsers) while others feed on a mixture of both. Perissodactyls Rhinoceros belong to the perissodactyl family of ‘ungulates’ (hoofed animals) indicating […]
Together with the Javan Rhino, the Sumatran Rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) is the most critically endangered of the rhino species. This rhino species may represent the rainforest relic of a rhino which was once adapted to the open woodlands of the Pleistocene ice ages when sea levels were much lower than now, and Borneo and Sumatra […]
BORA is a non-governmental organisation established as a non-profit company under Malaysian law. BORA’s Board of Directors is chaired by Dr Abdul Hamid Ahmad of the Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ITBC), Universiti Malaysia Sabah. Other members of the Board are Dato’ Dr Dionysius Sharma, Datuk Dr Junaidi Payne, Executive Director of BORA and […]
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 […]
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 […]