A new study published in Animal Conservation finds that most predicted biodiversity hotspots in Borneo and Sumatra fall outside formally protected areas, with only 9.2% and 18.2% of the modeled ...

INDONESIA, the insular chain linking the southern Asian mainland and Australia, consists of thousands of islands large and small, the major ones being Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, and New Guinea.

Upper montane cloud forest during rainfall at Mt. Kinabalu in Malaysia. The "untouched" rainforests of Southeast Asia may have been more manhandled than previously thought. In present-day Borneo, ...

From 2003-2006, Java lost approximately 2,500 hectares a year (10,000 hectares of forest in total) according to the Forestry Ministry. Despite the rate of loss being far lower in Java than other ...

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Supplement to Treubia; recueil de travaux zoologiques, hydrobiologiques et océanographiques ... v. 22. At head of title: Kebun Raya Indonesia (Botanic Gardens of Indonesia) ... Treubia. HANDLIST OF ...

An artificial island of sand dredged from Indonesia's seafloor has accidentally revealed evidence of a long-lost sunken world, inhabited by early humans. Scattered across the newly created island, ...

Examining a 3-meter stack of bat feces has shed light on the landscape of the ancient continent of Sundaland. The research could help explain the biodiversity of present-day Borneo, Sumatra, and Java.