http://www.greenkampong.com Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:35:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/bid-to-save-borneo%e2%80%99s-rhinos/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/bid-to-save-borneo%e2%80%99s-rhinos/#comments Tue, 16 Nov 2010 01:45:09 +0000 green team http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=4189 The Sabah Forestry Department is working with the Rhino and Forest Fund (RFF), a German-based NGO. Sabah officials say they will now ensure that the reserve and the restored areas will remain protected, excluding any conversion or logging in the future. via Wildlife Extra News]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/bid-to-save-borneo%e2%80%99s-rhinos/feed/ 0 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/sabah-government-refutes-zoo-negara-claim/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/sabah-government-refutes-zoo-negara-claim/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:00:15 +0000 green team http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=3685 Good to know that some governments have common sense. Well done Sabah. State Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Masidi Manjun said that it would be irresponsible to relocate the state’s iconic wildlife such as the proboscis monkeys, Borneo pygmy elephants and orang utan. “Moving them elsewhere will compromise the animals’ survival chances outside their [...]]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/sabah-government-refutes-zoo-negara-claim/feed/ 0 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/photography-seminar-with-mattias-klum/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/photography-seminar-with-mattias-klum/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:40:36 +0000 green team http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=3683 Held in conjunction with Month of Photography Asia 2010, this exhibition by acclaimed National Geographic photographer Mattias Klum is a powerful and revealing testimony of the devastation of Borneo’s tropical rainforests, which are among the oldest and most biologically diverse in the world. Forest-dwelling people, such as the Penan have depended on Borneo’s rainforests for [...]]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/photography-seminar-with-mattias-klum/feed/ 0 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/crocs-snap-back-from-the-brink/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/crocs-snap-back-from-the-brink/#comments Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:35:18 +0000 green team http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=3676 The population of saltwater crocodiles in Sabah, Sarawak and Brunei has increased dramatically in the past decade that they could be removed from the endangered list. The positive development was due to the respective governments implementing management plans to save the once severely depleted wild population of crocodiles. Read more at The Star.]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/crocs-snap-back-from-the-brink/feed/ 0 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/heart-of-borneo/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/heart-of-borneo/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:15:37 +0000 Kelly Wu http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=3409 Do you know a place where orang utans, pygmy elephants, clouded leopards, hornbills and many other exotic species call their home? Where you can fall asleep under the canopy of a dense tropical forest. Where you receive morning calls from gibbons and feel the forest mist on your skin. Where indigenous people speak their own [...]]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/heart-of-borneo/feed/ 0