Research Articles

2025


Innovative planting designs for oil palm-based agroforestry

Agroforest Systems

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Outcomes of orangutan wild-to-wild translocations reveal conservation and welfare risks

Plos One

WEB

Capacity for recovery in Bornean orangutan populations when limiting offtake and retaining forest

Diversity and Distributions Vol. 31

DOI

2024


Chapter: The Impact of Tourism and Research Activity on Ape Health

Pg.76-108 in State of the Apes
Vol. V: Disease, Health and Ape Conservation

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Mapping the distribution of the Sunda Pangolin (Manis javanica) within natural forest in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

Global Ecology and Conservation

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CamTrapAsia: A dataset of tropical forest vertebrate communities from 239 camera trapping studies

Ecology

DOI

Pig virus imperils food security in Borneo

SCIENCE

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Thresholds for adding degraded tropical forest to the conservation estate

Nature

DOI

2023


Tapanuli Orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis) – Spatial Data - Methods for 2023 update of IUCN Red List (Pongo spp.) ranges

IUCN

DOI

Apes and Agriculture

Frontiers in Conservation Science

WEB

Restoring the orangutan in a Whole- or Half-Earth context

Oryx

DOI

Public opinion on protecting iconic species depends on individual wellbeing: Perceptions about orangutan conservation in Indonesia and Malaysia

Environmental Science and Policy

DOI

Killing of orangutans in Kalimantan – Community perspectives on incidence and drivers.

Conservation Science and Practice

DOI

Tropical field stations yield high conservation return on investment.

Conservation Letters

WEB

2022


Understanding the spatial distribution and hot spots of collared Bornean elephants in multi-use landscape

Scientific Reports

DOI

Chapter: Rhinoceros hornbill

Pg. 275-282  in Wildlife Atlas of Sabah: maps and conservation

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Recent forest and land-use policy changes in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo: are they truly transformational?

Land Use Policy

DOI

Orangutan killing and trade in Indonesia: Wildlife crime, enforcement, and deterrence patterns

Biological Conservation

DOI

Innovative agroforestry designs for tropical plantation landscapes – the TRAILS project

ISHS Acta Horticulturae

DOI

Helmeted hornbill

Pg. 265-274 in Wildlife Atlas of Sabah: maps and conservation

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Effectiveness of 20 years of conservation investments in protecting orangutans

Current Biology

DOI

Deforestation projections imply range-wide population decline for critically endangered Bornean orangutans

Research Letters

DOI

Coexisting with wildlife

Pg 106-111 in Muzings, Vol. 3

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Bornean Elephants

Pg 101-112 in Wildlife Atlas of Sabah: maps and conservation

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Addressing the monoculture system: challenges in oil-palm based agroforestry

Palms

WEB

“Engaging the Enemy”: Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus morio) conservation in human modified environments in the Kinabatangan floodplain of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

International Journal of Primatology

DOI

Understanding the spatial distribution and hot spots of collared Bornean elephants in a multi-use landscape

Nature Portfolio

DOI

2021


The importance of orangutans in small fragments for maintaining metapopulation dynamics

Frontiers in Forests and Global Changes

DOI

Disease risk and conservation implications of orangutan translocations

Frontiers in Veterinary Science

DOI

Deforestation projections imply range-wide population decline for critically endangered Bornean orangutan

Perspectives in ecology and conservation

DOI

Artificial nest cavities sustain hornbills in the Kinabatangan

Oryx

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2020


Viewing Bornean human-elephant conflicts through an environmental justice lens

Pg 487-504 in Human-Wildlife Interactions 14(3)

DOI

The environmental impacts of palm oil in context

Nature Plants, 1418-1426

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Shifting apes: conservation and welfare outcomes of Bornean orangutan rescue and release in Kalimantan, Indonesia

Journal of Nature Conservation

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Impact of palm oil sustainability certification on village well-being and poverty in Indonesia

Nature Sustainability

WEB

Estimating the availability of potential hornbill nest trees in a secondary forest patch in Kinabatangan, Sabah

Pg 56-62 in Forktail (36)

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Envisioning a future for Bornean orangutans: Conservation impacts of action plan implementation and recommendations for improved population outcomes

Biodiversitas

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2019


The power of mixed survey methodologies for detecting decline of the Bornean orangutan

Ecological Modelling

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Successful observations of orangutans in the wild with thermal-equipped drones

Journal of Unmanned Vehicle System

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Shift of paradigm needed towards improving human–elephant coexistence in monoculture landscapes in Sabah

International Zoo Yearbook

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Observations of a nest of Helmeted hornbill Rhinoplax vigil in Borneo, Malaysia

Forktail

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Larger gains from improved management over sparing-sharing for tropical forests

Nature Sustainability

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Landscape genetics applied to conservation of primates in flooded forests: a case study of orangutans in the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife sanctuary: ecology and conservation

Pg. 298-306 in Primates in flooded habitats

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Implanted radio telemetry in orangutan reintroduction and post release monitoring and its application in other ape species

Frontiers in Veterinary Science

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Densities of Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus morio) in heavily degraded forest and oil palm plantations in Sabah, Borneo

American Journal of Primatology

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Cost-benefit based prioritisation of orangutan conservation actions in Indonesian Borneo

Biological Conservation

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Combining behavioural and LIDAR data to reveal relationships between canopy structure and orangutan nest selection in disturbed forests

Biological Conservation

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