If you are a keen bird watcher, why not consider a whole new experience of bird watching in an utterly different destination? Borneo, the elusive nature and adventure-based destination is increasingly earning recognition as a bird watching hotspot. One of the most acclaimed bird watching sites here is none other than the UNESCO’s listed World...
Sukau Rainforest Lodge of Sabah, on Malaysian Borneo was recently nominated for two award categories at the 15th World Travel Awards in 2008. It is nominated as one of the nine World’s Leading Eco-Lodges and one of Asia’s 5 Leading Green Hotels. The voting involved 167,000 travel professionals worldwide with the aim to acknowledge, reward...
Bob Ellice-Flint is one. At 90, he has the energy of someone 20 years younger and he can make a speech more fluently than most politicians. Yet Bob has had a tough life. His father was a farmer whose livelihood was destroyed by the Great Depression. Bob had to leave school at 15 and struggled...
KOTA KINABALU: The implementation of integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) can minimise the degradation of natural system, provides a framework for the management of multi-sectoral activities and maintain options for future uses of resources. Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Masidi Manjun said when coastal states such as Sabah implemented the integrated management of coastal...
SUKAU: Chief Minister Datuk Seri Panglima Musa Aman reiterated his commitment to environmental conservation when he engaged in a dialogue with the participants of StarYouth’s P2P Greeniz programme at the Sukau Rainforest Lodge. “While we push for economic development, we also strive to create a balance in sustainable development as outlined in the Sabah Development...
Participants of the P2P Greeniz programme will be learning about sustainable eco-tourism during their camp in Kinabatangan, Sabah, next week. AS his boat glided down Sungai Kinabatangan, Albert Teo was struck by the sight of gaps in the forests along the riverbank. He later learned that the gaps were the sites where logs harvested from...
In the past 72 hours, the whole team of us P2P Greeniz have experienced and done stuff that most of Malaysian teenagers will probably never get to do in their lifetime. On Sunday, after arriving in Sandakan, we journeyed up the Kinabatangan for 3 hours to reach Sukau Rainforest Lodge. Along the way we got...
Borneo Ecotourism Solutions & Technologies (BEST) a non-profit division of Borneo Eco Tours Sdn. Bhd organized a half-day seminar on the 12th of April 2008, titled Human Capital Development at Bavanggazo Rungus Longhouse near Kg Tinangol, Kudat. This seminar is another initiative by Borneo Eco Tours to support the Rungus community in Kudat by building...
Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia: The Borneo pygmy elephant may not be native to Borneo after all. Instead, the population could be the last survivors of the Javan elephant race – accidentally saved from extinction by the Sultan of Sulu centuries ago, a new publication suggests. The origins of the pygmy elephants, found in a range extending...