humid pit deep below Borneo’s rainforest. Climbing down past an ancient heap of bird guano and pushing through a gallery of gleaming pillars the color of old bone, the pair were hoping to make ...

the Dayak Iban of Sungai Utik village continue to care for a Paris-sized swath of rainforest and maintain customary laws to protect what they call their “omen birds.” These include species ...

Mammal watching is superficially similar to bird-watching ... particularly in Borneo, where palm oil plantations have replaced large areas of rainforest. So much of my interaction with mammal ...

For most of its history Borneo was scarcely populated by humans. The unforgiving climate and dense rainforest kept populations ... 80-90 percent for mammals, birds, and reptiles) in biological ...