http://projectpowerplant.com/blog/2006/04/28/borneo-healing-plants-threatened/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:35:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://projectpowerplant.com/blog/2006/04/28/borneo-healing-plants-threatened/comment-page-1/#comment-201 projectpowerplant.com » Borneo’s clouded leopard identified as new cat species Thu, 15 Mar 2007 05:54:15 +0000 http://projectpowerplant.com/blog/?p=11#comment-201 [...] The news comes just a few weeks after a WWF report showed that scientists had identified at least 52 new species of animals and plants over the past year on Borneo. [...] [...] The news comes just a few weeks after a WWF report showed that scientists had identified at least 52 new species of animals and plants over the past year on Borneo. [...]

]]> http://projectpowerplant.com/blog/2006/04/28/borneo-healing-plants-threatened/comment-page-1/#comment-2 projectpowerplant.com » Rare Rhino photographed Fri, 22 Sep 2006 06:15:17 +0000 http://projectpowerplant.com/blog/?p=11#comment-2 [...] A motion-triggered camera trap set up in a remote jungle has captured the first-ever photo of a rhino in the wild on the island of Borneo, the Sabah Wildlife Department and WWF announced today. The rhino is believed to be one of a population of as few as 13 individuals whose existence was confirmed during a field survey last year in the interior forests of Sabah, Malaysia in an area known as the Heart of Borneo. A handful of rhinos are thought to survive in addition to the 13, scattered across Sabah but isolated from each other. Conservationists hope that this population of 13 is viable and will be able to reproduce if protected from poaching. A full-time rhino monitoring team was established at the end of 2005 in Sabah to monitor the rhinos and their habitat, and to keep poachers away. The camera traps, set up in February 2006, are remotely activated by infrared triggers when animals walk by. [...] [...] A motion-triggered camera trap set up in a remote jungle has captured the first-ever photo of a rhino in the wild on the island of Borneo, the Sabah Wildlife Department and WWF announced today. The rhino is believed to be one of a population of as few as 13 individuals whose existence was confirmed during a field survey last year in the interior forests of Sabah, Malaysia in an area known as the Heart of Borneo. A handful of rhinos are thought to survive in addition to the 13, scattered across Sabah but isolated from each other. Conservationists hope that this population of 13 is viable and will be able to reproduce if protected from poaching. A full-time rhino monitoring team was established at the end of 2005 in Sabah to monitor the rhinos and their habitat, and to keep poachers away. The camera traps, set up in February 2006, are remotely activated by infrared triggers when animals walk by. [...]

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