The Borneo rainforest is estimated to be around 140 million years old, making it one of the oldest in the world and one of the few remaining natural habitats for the endangered Bornean orangutan.
The Heart of Borneo’s natural capital has significant social and economic value at local, national and global levels. This includes social values related to traditional knowledge and sacred sites, the ...
Beneath the island’s rainforest, explorers search for new discoveries deep within some of the Earth’s largest, longest, and wildest caves. At dusk, a swarm of bats disperses to hunt in the ...
Sudden downpours – this is a rainforest after all – are soaked ... the Indonesian part of Borneo, and on to sail Indonesia’s volcano-strewn Ring of Fire. There we will snorkel with whale ...
Rows of oil palms replace rain forest near Borneo’s Gunung Palung National Park. Vast expanses of orangutan habitat have been lost to palm oil, used for cooking, food products, and cosmetics.
Vivy, a Bornean Orangutan, has made his way back to the rainforest after almost succumbing ... mammal at a rubber plantation near a village in Borneo on April 20. The Bornean Orangutan is native ...
Searching for these creatures is both an adventure and an exercise in supporting conservation, particularly in Borneo, where palm oil plantations have replaced large areas of rainforest.
In the Heart of Borneo, conservation districts are seen as a logical development to avoid sacrificing natural habitat to unplanned economic development. Planning for conservation districts is the ...