The Sabah Forestry Department has entrusted BORA to develop and curate the Sabah Ficus Germplasm Centre at Tabin WildlifeReserve.
This facility contains about 90 species of native wild fig (Ficus)species, maintained as living plants, and all able to produce materials for planting elsewhere.
BORA and other NGOs are constantly seeking and collecting seeds and cuttings of other native Ficus species, to add to the collection.
Seedlings, cuttings, marcots and bud-grafts of selected species are produced tohelp restore habitat for orangutans and other wildlife species in ForestReserves and in oil palm plantations.