Population borneo. Medical search. Frequent questions

Puntung, a female Sumatran rhinoceros, in forest stockade in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo a day after her capture in December 2011. (focusingonwildlife.com)
We certainly do not want the same thing to happen to the Sumatran rhinoceros and we therefore strongly recommend to act now and exchange gametes such as semen and ovocytes (and possibly individuals) between the captive populations of Sumatran rhinoceros in Sabah (Tabin), Sumatra (Way Kambas) and Cincinnati Zoo, when it is still possible. (focusingonwildlife.com)
Sabah is part of Borneo and consists of 42 indigenous groups with various cultural practices and socio-economic backgrounds [9] . (johb.info)
However, knowledge of H. pylori infection is limited among many ethnic and indigenous population in Sabah. (johb.info)
The Houston Zoo has worked with the Danau Girang Field Centre in Sabah (Borneo), Malaysia since 2009 in support of a program to determine the social structure, migration corridors and habitat use of the Bornean Elephant. (houstonzoo.org)
Her work, which been supported by the Houston Zoo for many years and is our elephant conservationist and researcher in Borneo, assists the Sabah Wildlife Department in determining best practices for the conservation and management of the elephants in the region. (houstonzoo.org)
She said her ministry and Sabah Wildlife Department has implemented a short-term and long-term management plan in line with the Bornean Elephant Action Plan (2020-2029) to safeguard the sustainability of the Bornean Elephant population and the well-being of the people. (thestar.com.my)
Malaysia also has a new (2003) subspecies of Asian elephant, officially named as Borneo pygmy elephant, (Elephas maximus borneensis), estimated to be less than 1,500, most of them living in Sabah. (elephant.se)
2020: It is estimated that there are less than 3000 individual elephants left in Peninsular Malaysia including the endangered Borneo Pygmy elephants found in Sabah. (elephant.se)
According to www.birdsoftheworld.org, the Sabah Partridge is a terrestrial species that is confined to the Malaysian state of Sabah (in northeast Borneo). (sabahtourism.com)
The Sabah Partridge, frequently captured in photographs and observed along the Kinabatangan River, faces a concerning decline in its population. (sabahtourism.com)

Forty thousand years ago - 28,000 years before the Neolithic Revolution saw hunter-gatherers settle down and farm, 36,000 before the first pyramids took shape, and 39,000 before the Norman conquest of England - humans took shelter in a cave in what is today the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. (mongabay.com)
In 1826, Pierre Médard-Diard, a French naturalist who explored Borneo, claimed to have killed a tapir in what is today Indonesia's West Kalimantan province. (mongabay.com)
a female, perhaps the last wild rhino of Borneo, was recently caught in East Kalimantan. (mongabay.com)
Kalimantan' is an Indonesian term that refers to the island of Borneo. (peoplegroups.org)
More than a hundred people groups are classified within the Borneo-Kalimantan people cluster. (peoplegroups.org)
Nothing short of Dubai or Manhattan, in the middle of the logged out, monstrously scarred, poisoned island of Borneo (known as Kalimantan in Indonesia). (dissidentvoice.org)
Villagers spotted the wounded orangutan in a lake in the East Kutai district of East Kalimantan province on Borneo two weeks ago. (timesofmalta.com)
Scientists have had the first contact in over four decades with a Sumatran rhino in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo. (iflscience.com)
His symptoms started 13 days after he left Indonesian Borneo (Kalimantan). (cdc.gov)
The patient had spent an average of 10 days per month for the past 18 months working adjacent to a forest area in South Kalimantan Province, Indonesian Borneo. (cdc.gov)
CANDIDATES FOR THE 42nd ORANGUTAN RELEASE FROM NYARU MENTENG The Ministry of Environment and Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia (KLHK), the Natural Resources Conservation Centre (BKSDA) of Central Kalimantan, and the Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS). (orangutans.com.au)
In Kalimantan, the working areas of the Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation have not been spared from occasional fire. (orangutans.com.au)
The Ministry of Environment and Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia (KLHK), with the Natural Resources Conservation Center (BKSDA) of East Kalimantan, assisted by the Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation has successfully conducted its 25th orangutan. (orangutans.com.au)
There may be a small population in Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. (theconversation.com)
They are native to the island of Borneo and found in both the Malaysian state of Sarawak and Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island. (animal-world.com)

A new study argues for treating endangered Sumatran populations in Borneo and Sumatra as "a single conservation unit", lending academic support to a controversial proposal to move wild rhinos from Malaysia to Indonesia. (focusingonwildlife.com)
Despite clear results demonstrating that the Ujung Kulon (Indonesia) and Cat Tien (Vietnam) populations represented separate evolutionary significant units it was argued that demographic considerations should override genetic issues in the short term. (focusingonwildlife.com)
Even though the Africa coast is only one-twentieth of the distance to Indonesia, it appears that migrations from Africa may have been more limited, as less of the diversity seen in the source population has survived in Madagascar. (mongabay.com)
But why, if the population is a 50:50 mix, is the language almost exclusively derived from Indonesia? (mongabay.com)
Once roaming across much of Southeast Asia, from India and China down to Indonesia, they are now restricted to scattered populations, most of which are found on the island of Sumatra. (iflscience.com)
This will be the second such sanctuary in Indonesia after the first one was established in Sumatra in 1984, and will hopefully keep the animals safe from poaching and establish a breeding population in Borneo. (iflscience.com)
TRAFFIC thanks the United States Department of State for supporting our work in Borneo, an anonymous donor for supporting our bird trade work in Indonesia and Wildlife Reserves Singapore for supporting our work on birds. (traffic.org)
The majority of the remaining Sumatran rhino are reckoned to be on Sumatra - the largest island of Indonesia - with a handful likely in the wild in Indonesian Borneo. (theconversation.com)
Borneo is a large tropical island shared by three countries: Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. (ourkidsmom.com)
Why not make an appointment with one of our Travel Consultants about your orangutan-spotting trip and let us tailor-make your Asia holiday to include Malaysia, Borneo or Indonesia. (flightcentre.co.uk)

In our paper, we discuss the pros and cons of considering the populations of Sumatran rhinoceros from Sumatra and Borneo as a single management unit," said study lead author Benoit Goossens, Director of the Danau Girang Field Centre in Malaysia, in a statement. (focusingonwildlife.com)
Indonesian territory accounts for roughly 73% of the land area of Borneo, with Malaysia and Brunei sharing the non-Indonesian portions of the island. (peoplegroups.org)
Analysis of five deep-sequenced trio-genomes of the Peninsular Malaysia Orang Asli and North Borneo populations. (bvsalud.org)
We analyzed the whole- genome deep sequencing data (~ 30×) of five native trios from Peninsular Malaysia and North Borneo , and characterized the genomic variants, including single nucleotide variants (SNVs), small insertions and deletions (indels) and copy number variants (CNVs). (bvsalud.org)
It implies specific population history of the native inhabitants, and demonstrated the necessity of more genome sequencing efforts on the multi-ethnic native groups of Malaysia and Southeast Asia . (bvsalud.org)
Helicobacter pylori infection in a multi-ethnic population in east coast of Borneo, Malaysia: The effects of ethnicity. (johb.info)
2011). Malaysia put into place the Management & Ecology of Malaysian Elephants (MEME) project in 2011 to further study and collect data on the country's wild elephant populations with the end goal of developing evidence-based approaches to HEC. (elephant.se)
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, 21st November 2017- The beautiful, melodious song of the Straw-headed Bulbul may very well be its downfall, as trapping for the Indonesian songbird trade is driving populations to critically low levels. (traffic.org)
Populations in Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia have also greatly declined. (traffic.org)
Malaysia holds Iman and her eggs - the single surviving captive Sumatran rhino on the island of Borneo - and the sperm of recently deceased Tam. (theconversation.com)

The population of Sumatran rhinos has declined precipitously in recent years and is now estimated at less than 100 individuals scattered across forests in Sumatra and Borneo. (focusingonwildlife.com)
Sumatran rhino once roamed across Asia, from south-east India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Thailand to the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. (theconversation.com)

The invasion of Borneo was the second stage of Operation Montclair, which was aimed at destroying Imperial Japanese forces in, and re-occupying the NEI, Raj of Sarawak, Brunei, the colonies of Labuan and British North Borneo, and the southern Philippines. (wikipedia.org)
Map of northern Borneo, showing location of Sarawak and adjacent regions. (britishcheloniagroup.org.uk)

The campaign was initially planned to involve six stages, but eventually landings were undertaken at four locations: Tarakan, Labuan, North Borneo and Balikpapan. (wikipedia.org)
In the aftermath, the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) administered the occupied British North Borneo and the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was responsible for Dutch Borneo. (wikipedia.org)
In the subspecies found in North Borneo, a dark face and delicate white eyebrows set it apart from other variants. (sabahtourism.com)

Add to this the evidence that early humans painted a tapir in Indonesian Borneo, and it's possible the species was at one time widespread across the island, albeit a rare, retiring denizen. (mongabay.com)
The origins of the language spoken in Madagascar, Malagasy, suggested Indonesian connections, because its closest relative is the Maanyan language, spoken in southern Borneo," said Dr Matthew Hurles, of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. (mongabay.com)
The numbers of orangutans on Borneo and on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, recognised as separate species and both classified as critically endangered, have fallen precipitously since the 1970s. (timesofmalta.com)
We describe a case of P. knowlesi infection acquired in Indonesian Borneo that was imported into Australia. (cdc.gov)

Given the dire straights of the species - the wild population is estimated at less than 100 individuals - the researchers argue that ensuring the Sumatran rhino's survival takes precedence over preserving what little genetic diversity remains between populations. (focusingonwildlife.com)
While habitat loss and poaching have historically been the biggest threats to the species, today the largest challenge for wild Sumatran rhinos may be in finding a mate since population densities are so low. (focusingonwildlife.com)
Acmella nana was one of 48 new snail species discovered in Borneo. (ibtimes.co.uk)
A minute shell with an average diameter of 0.7 mm was found in Borneo by a team of biologists along with another 47 new species of greatly varying sizes. (sciencedaily.com)
Some of the new 48 species described in the present paper are widespread in Borneo and had been familiar to the team of snail researchers for decades. (sciencedaily.com)
Feb. 20, 2020 Participants in a citizen-science expedition in the Ulu Temburong National Park in Brunei, Borneo, named a new snail species after climate activist Greta Thunberg. (sciencedaily.com)
Given increased reports of P . knowlesi in Malaysian Borneo, we conducted molecular studies to identify the species. (cdc.gov)
While the current population size remains unknown, this species is recognized for its preference for dwelling primarily in lowland and foothill forests. (sabahtourism.com)
This species is restricted to northern Borneo, has a relatively small total population size, and its population trend is decreasing, putting the Bornean falconet on the IUCN Red List as Near Threatened. (sabahtourism.com)
For such a rare species with a scattered distribution that lives in dense mountain forests, evaluating the population size isn't easy. (theconversation.com)
Created in 1984 to preserve Sabah's rare animals, Tabin is a great place for spotting Borneo pygmy elephants and 220 species of exotic avifauna. (flightcentre.co.uk)
In Balikpapan Bay, which hosts one of the largest populations of the species, a previous Population Viability Analysis identified wildfires as the biggest threat. (czu.cz)
Researchers are working hard to try and conserve these populations before it is too late for this rare species. (genomebc.ca)
Although, given the real risk of inbreeding in both populations, the mixing, if successful, will be able to broaden the gene pool of this species, hopefully giving the Sumatran rhino a fighting chance against extinction. (genomebc.ca)

She also is working with palm oil plantations to find solutions for wildlife as well as helping with the Borneo tourism industry of which elephants are a large draw for the local economy. (houstonzoo.org)
If we are all united in our desire to care for and protect Borneo Elephants in this area, it is not impossible that Kalabakan will become a tourist destination. (thestar.com.my)

Genetic differences are minimal and we strongly believe that the observed differences do not justify keeping the Sumatran and Bornean populations as separate management units. (focusingonwildlife.com)
So it's certainly possible that the tapir managed to hang on in tiny, disconnected populations into the 20th century, much like the Sumatran rhino, before vanishing altogether. (mongabay.com)
Research from the Marshall University in West Virginia recently shed light on just how long the Sumatran rhino population has been having difficulties. (savetherhino.org)
The wild population of Sumatran rhino in Malaysian Borneo was declared extinct last year. (iflscience.com)
But populations of the Sumatran rhino - the world's smallest and hairiest rhino - have declined 70% in the past two decades, mainly due to poaching and habitat loss, and are now classed as critically endangered - the highest possible risk of extinction. (theconversation.com)
With no possibility of reproduction, the Malaysian population of Sumatran rhino have been functionally extinct for many years. (theconversation.com)
Low population sizes, few rhinos living close together and the isolation of viable habitats have combined with fatal consequences for the Sumatran rhino. (theconversation.com)
Sumatran rhinos are found only on the island of Sumatra with a remnant population on Borneo. (aazk.org)
At the Kelian Lestari Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary a team plans to harvest eggs from the female rhino from Sumatra they have in their care, and artificially inseminate them with sperm from a male rhino from Borneo from another sanctuary. (genomebc.ca)

The health of the forest is in many ways connected to healthy elephant populations. (houstonzoo.org)
Translocation has ensured healthy elephant populations. (elephant.se)

But before we can think about reintroducing the tapir to Borneo, it's important to understand why it might have gone extinct. (mongabay.com)
Her teams work has also determined that the genetics data and historical records support the theory that the Bornean elephant might be a remnant of an extinct population from Java, making these populations unique. (houstonzoo.org)
It's believed the wild Malaysian populations are now extinct. (theconversation.com)

Borneo, the planet's third largest island, is located in the Malay Archipelago and is considered a centre of high global biodiversity. (britishcheloniagroup.org.uk)

Once called the "Dutchmen" because of their large noses and large bellies, proboscis monkeys live only in Borneo. (npr.org)
The island is known for its population of rare apes, including orang-utans, gibbons and proboscis monkeys. (ourkidsmom.com)
Proboscis monkeys, endemic to Borneo, inhabit the fastest-disappearing forest types within the island. (czu.cz)

Our study presents a full catalogue of the genome variants of the native Malaysian populations , which is a complement of the genome diversity in Southeast Asians . (bvsalud.org)
We're just focusing on Malaysian Borneo here, but within that, there are Indian, Chinese, and Malay cultures, as well as at least 95 indigenous groups. (audleytravel.com)
Naturally acquired human infection with P . knowlesi was first described in Malaysian Borneo in 1965 after an unusual sequence of events ( 3 ). (cdc.gov)
He was taken from the wild in 2008 to a sanctuary in Malaysian Borneo. (theconversation.com)

However, most efforts have focused on the major populations , yet trio genomes of indigenous populations from Southeast Asia have been under-investigated. (bvsalud.org)
Brunei is a small, energy-rich Sultanate on the northern coast of Borneo in Southeast Asia. (state.gov)
These [above] are Banteng, also known as Tsaine or Tembadau, a wild cattle of southeast Asia, Borneo and Java. (scientificamerican.com)

I think such an intent was achieved at the Summit," said study co-author John Payne, executive director of the Borneo Rhino Alliance (BORA), which conceptualized and organized the summit with a dozen other groups involved in rhino conservation. (focusingonwildlife.com)
According to John Payne, head of the Borneo Rhino Alliance (BORA), tapirs require pioneer woody plants for survival. (mongabay.com)

They are found throughout the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and possibly Thailand and Cambodia. (animal-world.com)
In place of the forest : environmental and socio-economic transformation in Borneo and the eastern Malay Peninsula / Harold Brookfield, Lesley Potter, and Yvonne Byron. (who.int)

Brunei boasts a well-educated, largely English-speaking population, excellent infrastructure, and a government intent on attracting foreign investment and projects. (state.gov)
Brunei has been sultanate ruled for centuries and during the 15th and 16th it held sway throughout most of Borneo. (globaltrekkers.ca)

Located on the northwest side of the island of Borneo, it is about the size of Canada's smallest province Prince Edward Island (or Delaware in the US), making it one of the smallest countries in the world, yet one of the richest with its development of off-shore oil reserves in the 1960's. (globaltrekkers.ca)

You can get to Borneo by air from Kuala Lumpur. (ourkidsmom.com)

Most people visit Borneo for the orang-utans. (ourkidsmom.com)
Malaysia's largest state ticks every box on your Borneo list, from steamy jungles and doe-eyed orang-utans to tribal longhouses and swampy backwaters. (travelnation.co.uk)

Some researchers have proposed bringing the tapir back to the island by rearing a new captive population on site. (mongabay.com)

There are two subspecies of this rhino, one population lives in Sumatra, and the other in Borneo. (genomebc.ca)

In both studies, the risk factors of H. pylori infection amongst indigenous population of Borneo were not fully explored. (johb.info)

We are thrilled to announce that our Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation family has just expanded with the addition of our seventh partner - BOS New Zealand. (orangutans.com.au)
The Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation rescues and rehabilitates orphaned or displaced orangutans with the goal of keeping the wild population safeguarded. (globalgiving.org)
In fact, Batang Ai has the highest orangutan population density in central Borneo, making your chances of seeing one in the wild pretty high. (flightcentre.co.uk)

The paper, authored by an international team of rhino experts and published in the journal Oryx, says that genetic differences between the island populations are minimal. (focusingonwildlife.com)
President Joko Widodo on Monday announced further details about Indonesia's plans to move its capital from overpopulated Jakarta to Borneo Island. (dw.com)
It is located on Java Island, a commercial center that accounts for 58% of Indonesia's gross domestic product and is home to about half of nation's 260 million population. (dw.com)
Fiji has the largest population of all the South Pacific island countries, with an estimated 2010 population of 854 000: 433 000 males and 421 000 females. (who.int)
It has an estimated population of 162 000 spread across 19 villages, the majority of which live in the northern part of the island. (who.int)

The larger population is found in Ujung Kulon and a smaller non-viable population of only 3-5 individuals is found in the Cat Loc region of the Cat Tien National Park in Vietnam. (aazk.org)

But none are quite as exciting as our Volunteer Program in Borneo and our new Trek for Orangutans to the summit of Mount. (orangutans.com.au)

Malayan tapirs were found in Borneo until at least 1,500 years ago and maybe into the modern era. (mongabay.com)
Studies released earlier this year found the people of Madagascar have origins in Borneo and East Africa. (mongabay.com)
The set of non-African Y chromosomes found in the Malagasy was much more similar to the set of lineages found in Borneo than in any other population, which demonstrates striking agreement between the genetic and linguistic evidence. (mongabay.com)
However, unlike the privations suffered by those eastward travellers, the data suggests the early Malagasy population survived the voyage well, because more genetic variation is found in them than is found in the islands of Polynesia. (mongabay.com)
Bufo asper prefers to lay its eggs in quiet portions of streams, as metamorphosing larvae were found at the edges of side pools of streams in Borneo (Inger et al. (amphibiaweb.org)
Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park has the second largest population of this endangered rhino with an estimated 60-85 rhinos found here. (aazk.org)

During the past 10,000 years, tapirs also lost prime habitat in Borneo. (mongabay.com)

In 1849 they were introduced to the Cobourg Peninsula in Australia, and a population of about 1000 is now feral there (surprisingly, perhaps, people forgot about them until their rediscovery in the 1960s). (scientificamerican.com)
These are almost certainly feral, however, as has been established for various populations in India and elsewhere. (scientificamerican.com)

Bottlenecks' in evolutionary history, where the population is dramatically reduced in number, are a common cause of reduced genetic variation. (mongabay.com)
Domesticates have indeed emerged in the last 12.000 years as results of co-evolutionary interactions between plants and human populations ( Meyer and Purugganan, 2013 ). (frontiersin.org)

Half of the genetic lineages of human inhabitants of Madagascar come from 4500 miles away in Borneo, while the other half derive from East Africa, according to a study published in May by a UK team. (mongabay.com)
The new findings, published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, show that the human inhabitants of Madagascar are similarly unique - amazingly, half of their genetic lineages derive from settlers from the region of Borneo, with the other half from East Africa. (mongabay.com)
For the first time, we have been able to assign every genetic lineage in the Malagasy population to a likely geographic origin with a high degree of confidence. (mongabay.com)

Borneo has a tropical climate and was mainly covered by dense jungle at the time of World War II. (wikipedia.org)
I find that when most people think of Borneo , they think of dense jungle filled with animal calls. (audleytravel.com)

The Borneo Elephant population is highly threatened due to several factors. (thestar.com.my)

W e suggest an IUCN conservation category of EN B2ab(iii). (researchgate.net)
BFR monies help support on the ground rhino conservation by providing funds for anti-poaching units as well equipment for censusing of rhino populations such as trap cameras. (aazk.org)

The world's tiniest land snail has been discovered in Borneo, measuring just 0.7mm in diameter on average, breaking the previous record-holder uncovered in China earlier in 2015. (ibtimes.co.uk)

As of 1941, the island's population was estimated to be 3 million. (wikipedia.org)

Given this, some are calling on officials in Borneo to do something really wild: bring back the Malayan tapir. (mongabay.com)
Wild population numbers are divided into: (1. (elephant.se)
Data from the camera traps allows us to protect them but also understand how this new population is adapting to life in the wild. (globalgiving.org)

It is estimated that only 40-60 of these rhinos remain in two distinct populations. (aazk.org)

The last published US population-based surveillance report was from Hawaii and covered data obtained during 1974-1998 ( 5 ). (cdc.gov)

The population density is 75 per square kilometre. (who.int)

The team caught her using a pit trap in Kutai Barat, where it is thought that around 15 of the animals survive in three populations. (iflscience.com)

But in recent millennia the vegetation in Borneo shifted increasingly to low-light, low-nutrient rainforest, which supports fewer tapir-friendly plants. (mongabay.com)

So we know the tapir was in Borneo and survived there at the very least until 1,500 years ago, as evidenced by a tapir molar buried with a human. (mongabay.com)

These two revenue streams provide a comfortable quality of life for Brunei's population. (state.gov)

The great majority lived in small villages, with Borneo having less than a dozen towns. (wikipedia.org)

The average household size is 4.7 people, with 80% of the population living in rural areas. (who.int)

The British and Dutch also stationed only small military forces in Borneo to protect their holdings. (wikipedia.org)

The population structure in Madagascar is a fascinating snapshot of human history and a testament to the remarkable abilities of early populations to undertake migrations across vast reaches of ocean. (mongabay.com)

The General Population Census of 2008 put Cambodia's population at 13.4 million by March 2008. (who.int)

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