It is one of the Greater Sunda Islands with an area of almost 750,000 square kilometres and a population of more than 23 ...

Patches of primary jungle are rare worldwide, but the sultanate of Brunei has one of the most accessible ones. Marco ...

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 ...

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.

At the nearby Rainforest Discovery Center ... Ancient wilderness I felt the most intimate connection with Borneo at our last ...

Palm oil plantations and logging projects have in the past been criticized for encroaching on Borneo's rainforest areas. In August, a crocodile killed a 54-year-old woman as she bathed in a river ...

Four closely related civets, a small nocturnal animal found in Africa and Asia, have made the same geographical area in the rainforests of Borneo home. Typically, closely related animal species ...

Based in the Lower Kinabatangan Floodplain in Sabah, the project encompasses the awe-inspiring diversity of Borneo's rainforest landscape. The project is situated in a region of enormous ...

has led to devastating deforestation in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra, the only habitats where orangutans live.

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 ...

For most of its history Borneo was scarcely populated by humans. The unforgiving climate and dense rainforest kept populations small and scattered. In the past half century this has all changed.