BORA is a Malaysian nonprofit organisation that is dedicated to preventing the extinction of endangered species and enabling their recovery in the wild.
Populations of many of Malaysia's iconic wildlife species are currently in steady decline. Nevertheless, it is not too late to reverse this grim trajectory.
With strategic interventions, together we can bring back our rare animals.
For the first time, BORA is compiling all its knowledge on the food plants of wild Bornean Orangutans to energise what we believe to be actions for the conservation of our endangered red apes.
"An Illustrated Guide to Bornean Orangutan Food Plants" is a practical toolkit and provides aroad map to enrich set aside lands within the mixed landscape of oil palm plantations which dominate Sabah's northeast to contribute to Orangutan conservation.
The actions are uncomplicated and can be easily adopted. What now remains is for key stakeholders, particularly the plantation sector, to adopt habitat enrichment as their contribution to safeguarding Sabah's wildlife.
This publication was produced as part of the "Experimental Habitat Restoration for Orangutans in Kinabatangan landscape",a project by the Sabah Landscapes Programme under WWF Malaysia, funded by Unilever.
The publication may be downloaded for free from the link here.
In the mission to conserve wildlife on increasingly marginal lands, improving the capacity for land to provide not just shelter, but adequate food sources, is now critical. In an important new publication, BORA has distilled its experience restoring degraded landscapes in Sabah into an accessible handbook so that stakeholders can implement these simple approaches on private, public, and community lands.
This handbook, illustrated with over 80 photos, provides a comprehensive guide to all aspects of propagating, planting and maintaining native trees, hemiepiphytes and lianas, with an emphasis on Ficus (wild figs) in the equatorial region of Borneo. Together with text that outlines the bigger picture, the emphasis is on details of nursery practice, vegetative propagation, seed preparation and storage, and dealing with common problems.
This publication was produced as a part of the ‘Experimental Habitat Restoration for Orangutans in Kinabatangan Landscape’, a project by the Sabah Landscapes Programme under WWF-Malaysia, funded by Unilever.
The publication may be downloaded for free from the link here.
In 2021, BORA received a Climate Governance Award in support of its pilot initiative to develop elephant pastures on degraded land within the fringes of Sabah’s Tabin Wildlife Reserve to help address the problem of human–elephant conflict using habitat enrichment.
Over the past century the natural range of wild elephants in Sabah has transformed from mainly forest, to a mixed landscape of plantations and settlements. Inevitably this has given rise to conflict as herds move through in search of food. Now a new wildlife management approach may offer a solution to nurturing a more harmonious future for humans and elephants. Introducing the elephant feeding grounds of Malambabula along the southern border of Tabin Wildlife Reserve. Imagine if diverse stakeholders could establish similar feeding grounds for wild elephants.