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 […]
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 […]
Prof. Madya Dr. Abdul Hamid Ahmad (centre) presenting a souvenir, a pewter rhino, to Y.Bhg. Brig. Gen Prof. Datuk Seri Panglima Dr. Kamaruzaman Hj Ampon,Vice-Chancellor of UMS while Dr. Junaidi Payne looks on. Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) will continue to support efforts to prevent the extinction of Malaysia’s most endangered species, the Sumatran rhino. This […]
Gelegub TABIN (Lahad Datu): The only female Sumatran Rhinoceros kept in captivity at the Lokawi Wildlife Park was safely translocated to the Tabin Wildlife Reserve, near here yesterday. Gelegub, the 28-year-old rhino, is now part of the Borneo Rhino Conservation Programme also known as the Borneo Rhino Sanctuary Programme in Tabin. The aim of the […]
Borneo Rhino Alliance c/o Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Locked Bag 2073, 88999 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia Fax: + 60 88 488080 Executive Director – Dr Junaidi Payne [email protected] or Operations – Audra Webber [email protected]
Sabah Wildlife Department and BORA survey the proposed Borneo Rhino Sanctuary site, January 2010 Bora operates by assisting government of Sabah primarily through Sabah Wildlife Department, the agency legally charged with conserving and managing Sabah’s wildlife.Up to twenty Bora staff are in tabin at any one time working with and/ or on behalf of Sabah […]
A mother rhino and her young: rhinos involved in the captive breeding programme at the Cincinnati Zoo 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 […]
Yayasan Sime Darby visit to Tabin-17 February 2009 The work conducted by BORA was initiated by Sabah State government funds, through the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Evironment, and generous donations raised at a fund raising luncheon held in Kota Kinabalu in March 2009. In July 2009, BORA was given a significant boost with the […]
Borneo Rhino Alliance (BORA) is a local NGO based in Sabah. Active since the year 2000, and formerly known as SOS Rhino and subsequently SOS Rhino Borneo, BORA provides protection and monitoring of a critical population of Sumatran Rhinos in Tabin Wildlife Reserve in eastern Sabah. SOS-Rhino-Borneo-team-in-Tabin-forest-September-2008 The Critically Endangered Sumatran rhino is now one […]
5. To locate, capture and translocate isolated rhinos into the Borneo Rhino Sanctuary (A) To discuss, decide and justify targeted areas of capture of rhinos amongst stakeholders, particularly Sabah Wildlife Department, Sabah Forestry Department and Yayasan Sabah (where appropriate). The basis of justification will be on: (i) Focussing on rhinos that are either living in […]
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 […]
TABIN (Lahad Datu): The only female Sumatran Rhinoceros kept in captivity at the Lokawi Wildlife Park was safely translocated to the Tabin Wildlife Reserve, near here yesterday. Gelegub, the 28-year-old rhino, is now part of the Borneo Rhino Conservation Programme also known as the Borneo Rhino Sanctuary Programme in Tabin. The aim of the programme […]
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 […]
Land use change has reduced forest habitat in areas in which rhinos traditional range. According to historical records spanning the 19th and 20th Centuries, Bornean rhinos have never been especially numerous. However, in the past few decades, their numbers have declined at an alarming rate due to poaching and habitat loss. The last confirmed Sumatran […]