Borneo’s rainforests have one the highest densities of mammalian carnivore species anywhere on earth. As predators, these animals play a significant role in their ecosystem.
WildCRU’s Bornean Carnivore Programme has been studying clouded leopards and other key species for nearly 20 years. In 2023, the team successfully collared a male and female Sunda clouded leopard in the Tawau forest complex. Achieved in the same location only days apart, the unique data derived from these animals’ collars will reveal new insights into the life histories of this threatened species.
Continued camera-trapping surveys in Borneo’s understudied forest patches have also discovered isolated populations of the very rare flat-headed cat and Bornean ferret badger. These are both endangered and ecologically important species about which very little is known.
This work is providing vital new insight to inform conservation of rare, threatened species and their important rainforest habitat.