The world mourns the loss of Malaysia’s last male Sumatran rhino. Can anything stop the slide of the species towards extinction?
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Calls to ban palm oil could get a very different response among people who live in the same forests as orangutans.
An evolutionary biologist visits the remote jungle mountaintop where a little-known naturalist wrote his insightful paper about the mechanisms of evolution that spurred on a rivalrous Charles Darwin.
The bearded boar is rarely honoured, yet its role in the forest of this island in the Malay archipelago is as crucial as it is emblematic.
This research reconciled data and hypotheses from linguistic, archeological and genetic research on the settlement of the Comoros and Madagascar.
To save the orangutans we must both protect their forests and stop any hunting and killing within them.
My holiday to Borneo in 2004 was more than just a chance to see incredible wildlife like orangutans and pygmy elephants. It helped crystallise for me the innate nature of scientific thinking.
From the tropics of Borneo, Darren Curnoe posted a daily diary sharing his team’s dig to explore ancient cemeteries. Through two metres of clay, human bones and tools were discovered.
Deforestation has wiped out most other predators, so the lizards have lots of food and little competition.
The world’s rainforests are still being slashed and burned at a dizzying rate to make consumer products. But now there are signs of real political will, especially in Asia, to rein in the destruction.
Mount Kinabalu, Borneo, is home to trees that contain some of the world’s highest concentrations of nickel. Antony van der…
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Honorary Professor of Conservation, University of Kent
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Professor of Primate Biology, Liverpool John Moores University
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Reader in Anthropology, Brunel University of London
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Postdoctoral researcher in genetics and epigenetics of human populations, Université de Toulouse
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Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW
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Honorary Associate Professor, The Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Mochtar Riady Institute for Nanotechnology
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Researcher in Anthropobiology, Université de Toulouse
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Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Head of Communications at Borneo Futures
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Doctoral Researcher, Sustainability and Complexity in Ape Habitat, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
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Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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Research Centre of Archeometry, Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN)
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Research Scientist in Population Ecology at Cornell University and Postdoctoral Reseacher, Queen's University Belfast