An estimated 18 million people live on the island, with the majority based in the coastal lowlands and cities. The forests of the Heart of Borneo area are of high value for people’s livelihoods and ...

Bailey Bedford Smithsonian researchers Jacob Saucier and Christopher Milensky relied on Borneo natives to get them safely up the whitewater rivers in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. It took about ...

Borneo is also culturally diverse, with 306 officially recognized indigenous groups. "The database now contains information on 1,319 plant species, including which parts of the plants are used and ...

In Mekar Raya, a semi-remote pocket of Ketapang district near the west coast of Indonesian Borneo, the local Dayak ... Likewise, only the descendants of the people who previously worked that ...

Borneo may seem like a world away from Indiana, but the fate of its rainforests has direct consequences for Hoosiers.

A BRITISH charity has overseen the safe return of two critically endangered orangutans to their native Borneo, after they were taught how to live in the wild. A team from the Orangutan Conservation ...

MPOGCF, through the Sabah Wildlife Department Wildlife Rescue Unit, is ensuring the future of Borneo's cherished wildlife.

In the rainforests of West Kalimantan, in Indonesian Borneo, the Indigenous Dayak Iban listen to what they call “omen birds,” or birds they say sing messages from spirits, Mongabay’s Sonam ...

We, the Governments of Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia and Malaysia, recognizing the importance of the Island of Borneo as a life support system, hereby declare that: With one conservation vision and ...