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Published on: Friday, May 28, 2021 By: Bernama To date, about 26 per cent of Sabah-produced palm oil is RSPO-certified. Kota Kinabalu: Growing up during the late 1980s, this writer used to visit his grandfather’s small oil palm estate in Batu Pahat, Johor, where his favourite activities were catching ikan puyu or the climbing perch fish and trapping burung wak-wak or white-breasted waterhen. His grandfather Mohtar Haron, who is now 86, was well aware of the importance of sustainable palm oil production as he used to tell this writer that fauna such as climbing perch and white-breasted water...

KOTA KINABALU: Four Bornean pygmy elephants were transferred to their new home at Bornean Elephant Sanctuary (BES) in Kinabatangan last week, a wildlife refuge with better facilities and bigger roaming space.

The turtle, nicknamed Klowyi, was seen floating and unable to dive at Kudat waters a month ago. A Kudat Turtle Conservation Society member took it and alerted the rescue unit. During its rehabilitation, Klowyi was placed at the Clownfish Discovery Centre of Shangri-La’s Tanjung Aru Resort (STAR) Marina here where the unit's veterinarians and rangers nursed it back to health until it was able to be released on Wednesday (May 12) morning near Sapi Island waters. State department assistant director Dr Sen Nathan said Klowyi suffered from a serious condition caused by excess accumulation of gas...

Home sweet home: A Wildlife Rescue Unit member releasing Klowyi into the sea, witnessed by Sainsbury (in white shirt) and Sabah Park rangers (in the opposite boat). KOTA KINABALU: A rescued female juvenile green turtle, diagnosed with floater syndrome probably due to ingesting plastics or having bacterial infection, has been released back into the sea by the Sabah Wildlife Department’s Wildlife Rescue Unit. The turtle, nicknamed Klowyi, was seen floating and unable to dive in Kudat waters a month ago, and was rescued by a Kudat Turtle Conservation Society member who alerted the unit. During...

A file picture of Sandakan Veterinary Services Department officials collecting samples from dead wild boar for tests. SANDAKAN (Bernama): At least 100 Bornean bearded pigs in Sabah's forest reserves have been found dead so far, suspected to be from African Swine Fever (ASF), says Sabah Wildlife Department (SWD) director Augustine Tuuga. Since the discovery of 14 dead wild boar carcasses in Kinabatangan between December 2020 and January 2021, the SWD has been finding at least one dead carcass a day. "The Sabah Veterinary Services Department couldn't find signs of the virus in the dead wild boa...