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Straight outta Borneo: New gecko species just dropped

Mongabay 02 Nov 2021
BENGKULU, IndonesiaScientists have recently described a new species of gecko from Borneo, highlighting the undiscovered rich biodiversity of the world’s third-largest island ... — had analyzed specimens collected from East Kalimantan, a province in the Indonesian part of Borneo, and Sabah in Malaysian Borneo.
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Indonesia aims to move capital to Borneo by 2024

Taipei Times 01 Nov 2021
Indonesia is moving ahead with a plan to relocate its capital to the island of Borneo in the first half of 2024, after the proposal languished for months amid the COVID-19 pandemic ... Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo, accounts for 5.8 percent of the population and makes up 8.2 percent of the economy.
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Indonesia to move capital to Borneo in 2024

Straits Times 01 Nov 2021
JAKARTA • Indonesia is moving ahead with a plan to relocate its capital to the island of Borneo in the first half of 2024, after the proposal languished for months amid the pandemic ... Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo, accounts for 5.8 per cent of the population and makes up 8.2 per cent of the economy.
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Indonesia sets 2024 deadline to move capital from Jakarta to Borneo's East Kalimantan province

Straits Times 01 Nov 2021
JAKARTA (BLOOMBERG) - Indonesia is moving ahead with the plan to relocate its capital to the island of Borneo in the first half of 2024, after the proposal languished for months amid the pandemic ... Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo, accounts for 5.8 per cent of the population and makes up 8.2 per cent of the economy.
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Pingers on fishing nets found to save river dolphins in Indonesian Borneo

Mongabay 29 Oct 2021
The last 80 Irrawaddy dolphins that inhabit the Mahakam River in Indonesian Borneo lead precarious lives. Their forays to find fish are frequently thwarted, sometimes fatally so, by a series of near-invisible gillnets that hang passively in the water column to ensnare fish ... But their fate is not yet sealed.
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Kinabalu Summit of Borneo (1985)

Bitchute 26 Oct 2021
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Green groups call for scrapping of $300m loan offer for Borneo road project

Mongabay 20 Oct 2021
JAKARTA — Conservation groups are calling on the Asian Development Bank to tighten its scrutiny of a road project it plans to fund in Indonesian Borneo that may pose risks to Indigenous communities and the environment ... human and animal inhabitants throughout Indonesian Borneo.
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Malaysia’s Indigenous Penan block roads to stop logging in Borneo

Mongabay 14 Oct 2021
Indigenous Penan tribespeople have set up road blocks to stop a timber company from logging on land in Malaysian Borneo that they consider part of their ancestral heritage. The Penan erected their first blockade at Long Ajeng in the Upper Baram region of Sarawak state on Sept ... 22 ... However, the state government has been slow to respond.
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Monitor lizards in Borneo found to prefer forests next to oil palm plantations

Phys Dot Org 12 Oct 2021
A team of researchers from Cardiff University working with staff at the Danau Girang Field Centre in Sabah, Malaysia, has found that monitor lizards living in the Malaysian part of Borneo prefer to reside in the natural forests that abut oil plantations, rather than in the plantations themselves.
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IKEA to share unique learnings from the restoration of rainforests and its ecosystems in Borneo (Inter IKEA Holding BV)

Public Technologies 11 Oct 2021
IKEA to share unique learnings from the restoration of rainforests and its ecosystems in Borneo. Over a period of 20 years, IKEA has together with partners restored around 18 500 hectares of rainforest in Borneo, Malaysia ... The rainforest in Borneo had been destroyed by fires and irresponsible logging, causing the loss of many indigenous tree species.
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The sound of Borneo: how one Malaysian singer is taking her tribe's music to the world

The National 03 Oct 2021
Alena Murang, the first professional female sape player, is preserving the indigenous music of Borneo ....
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Terminating PDP without sukuk, bonds makes Pan Borneo Highway construction difficult - Bung Moktar

Malaysian National News Agency 26 Sep 2021
Terminating PDP without sukuk, bonds makes Pan Borneo Highway construction difficult - Bung Moktar. Pan Borneo Highway ... When there is only development allocation left, the Pan Borneo Highway cannot be fully developed.
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