The Daily Express, Tuesday 11 March 2014. Kota Kinabalu: A female Sumatran rhino was captured deep inside Danum Valley, Monday, raising a desperate last hope that experts may be able to use it to get some baby rhinos sired in captive breeding to avert a local extinction of the species in Sabah. That is provided […]
Borneo Sumatran rhino Puntung in her temporary enclosure in the Tabin forest. By Junaidi Payne (executive director) & Abdul Hamid Ahmad (chairman) BORA, 10 June 2012 The fine article entitled Sex and the single rhinoceros by Henry Nicholls (Nature, Volume 485:566-569, 31 May 2012) provides just the sort of debate that is needed on the […]
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 […]
KUALA LUMPUR, May 28 – Puntung, one of Malaysia’s last three Sumatran rhinoceroses, will have to undergo euthanasia as it is dying from skin cancer. According to Sabah Wildlife Department (SWD) Director Augustine Tuuga, Puntung is suffering from squamous cell cancer that left the female rhinoceros in pain, unable to vocalise, and unable to breathe […]
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 […]
Danum Valley, 21 March 2014: A rare Sumatran rhino was successfully translocated late afternoon on Friday 21 from a very remote area in Danum Valley, to join a male (Tam) and a female (Puntong) rhinos at the Borneo Rhino Sanctuary (BRS) Facilities in Tabin Wildlife Reserve. Named Iman, after a small river near where she […]
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 […]
KOTA KINABALU: Puntung, one of Malaysia’s last surviving Sumatran rhinos, is now at death’s door. The female rhino has been diagnosed with squamous cell cancer, which has been spreading rapidly over the last few weeks. Specialists from various countries have all delivered the same devastating verdict: with or without treatment, the cancer will be fatal […]
1 Mar 2015, Kota Kinabalu: The Sumatran rhino once browsed the forests in India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and China. By the mid-20th century, its range and population has drastically shrunk due to forest habitat loss and killing for its horn. The demand for rhino horn stems from the common yet misguided belief […]
Dr Laurentius (centre) presenting mementos to Dr Heribent By LARRY RAILON-Daily Express, 23 November 2010 Kota Kinabalu: The world’s attention will be on the Tabin Wildlife Sanctuary in Lahad Datu for the next 12 months or so to witness an attempt to breed the Sumatran rhinoceros – the world’s most endangered rhino species. This will […]
Rhino horn nothing more than keratin, calcium, and melanin confirms research: Scientists Crack Rhino Horn Riddle By Lisa Forster, Ohio University Press Release, November 6, 2006 Rhinoceros horns have long been objects of mythological beliefs. Some cultures prize them for their supposed magical or medicinal qualities. Others have used them as dagger handles or good […]
Dr Laurentius (centre) presenting mementos to Dr Heribent By LARRY RAILON-Daily Express, 23 November 2010 Kota Kinabalu: The world’s attention will be on the Tabin Wildlife Sanctuary in Lahad Datu for the next 12 months or so to witness an attempt to breed the Sumatran rhinoceros – the world’s most endangered rhino species. This will […]
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 […]
26 Dec 2008, Associated Press A male rhinoceros recently rescued on the edge of Borneo’s rain forest is expected to become the first participant of a Malaysian breeding program for his critically endangered ilk, a wildlife expert said Wednesday. The roughly 20-year-old Borneo Sumatran rhino, nicknamed “Tam,” was found wandering in an oil palm plantation […]