By RUBEN SARIO, The Star, 19 April 2010 KOTA KINABALU: Wildlife experts here remain hopeful about the future of the highly endangered Sumatran rhino following a rare picture of a 20-year-old female that is believed to be pregnant. The picture of the female rhino was captured by remote camera trap devices set up jointly by […]
Jul 09 2010 BORA and Sabah Wildlife Department patrol team in Tabin Wildlife Department BORA staff in action. Written by leap · Categorized: Galleries · Tagged: Rhino conservation, Rhino Protection Unit, RPU, Sime Darby Foundation, Sumatran rhino
Jul 09 2010 BORA and Sabah Wildlife Department patrol team in Tabin Wildlife Department BORA staff in action. Written by leap · Categorized: Galleries · Tagged: Rhino conservation, Rhino Protection Unit, RPU, Sime Darby Foundation, Sumatran rhino
Face-to-face with what may be the last of the world’s smallest rhino, the Bornean rhinoceros. Nothing can really prepare a person for coming face-to-face with what may be the last of a species. I had known for a week that I would be fortunate enough to meet Tam. I’d heard stories of his gentle demeanor, […]
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 […]
Liew (centre) presenting a gift to Wiratno during the exchange of mementos. JAKARTA Aug 10 2019: The governments of Indonesia and Sabah-Malaysia have agreed to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Conservation of the Sumatran Rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) in Indonesia next month (September). The move, which involves a captive breeding programme, is to prevent […]
Jul 09 2010 BORA and Sabah Wildlife Department patrol team in Tabin Wildlife Department BORA staff in action. Written by leap · Categorized: Galleries · Tagged: Rhino conservation, Rhino Protection Unit, RPU, Sime Darby Foundation, Sumatran rhino
SAN DIEGO – Victoria, a southern white rhino at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, is pregnant. It’s an event of vital importance for a program to bring back her nearly extinct kin, the northern white rhino. The developing baby is also a southern white rhino, conceived on March 22 through artificial insemination. The pregnancy […]
“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” […]
KOTA KINABALU, 22 March 2014: Sabah wildlife researchers are hopeful that three Sumatran rhinoceros now in captivity at a reserve will help save the species from extinction. Sabah Wildlife Department director Datuk Dr Laurentius Ambu said they were examining the latest captive, a female Sumatran rhino recently translocated to the reserve to join two other […]
CINCINNATI, OH (September 6, 2009) – “Emi”, the world’s most famous endangered Sumatran rhino, passed away yesterday morning at the age of 21 at her home at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. The female Sumatran rhino lived at the Cincinnati Zoo for the past 14 years and produced three calves, Andalas (2001), Suci (2004) […]
By RUBEN SARIO, The Star, 19 April 2010 KOTA KINABALU: Wildlife experts here remain hopeful about the future of the highly endangered Sumatran rhino following a rare picture of a 20-year-old female that is believed to be pregnant. The picture of the female rhino was captured by remote camera trap devices set up jointly by […]
Story by RHISHJA LARSON Published on www.ecolocalizer.com, August 18th, 2009 Tam can roam in the knowledge that he is safe from poachers in the rhino sanctuary. An initiative to transport lone Borneo rhinos to a secure central location – where they can interact with other rhinos – could mean hope for this extremely rare subspecies. […]
Puntung enjoying a mud wallow in the safety of her temporary forest paddock days after her capture Today is one of the saddest days we’ve ever faced. As of this morning, Puntung’s suffering has come to an end. She was euthanized just past dawn, ending her battle against squamous cell cancer. It was one of […]