DD Hammocks Kindly Sponsored the Murung Raya Expedition Expedition Leader, Martin Holland, Recounts 55 Wonderful Nights in a DD Hammock on the last day at Camp Foyle Special Thanks to DD Hammocks for their very generous and well received contribution to the expedition.
CONTINUE READINGCamp Foyle Plays Host to Mountain Crossers and River Dwellers By Martin Holland, Expedition Leader We’re an oddity here. A new outpost of human habitation further upriver than any other, and of course we are foreigners: white skinned and interested only in seeing the animals here, not hunting them for food once we’ve found them. […]
CONTINUE READINGAttack of the Kamikaze Worms! By Martin Holland, Expedition Leader They came in droves. Silently and apparently randomly they attacked our team without warning or provocation. Where did they come from? What did they want? And more importantly – what were they?! Rusty was the first victim, but soon Holli, James, Lara and Tim had […]
CONTINUE READINGChecking What Tim’s Camera Traps Have Caught is Made Much More Fun with a Panasonic Toughbook! Exped Leader and Head of Media, Martin Holland, on a great day out with Tim checking Camera Traps on the Butler Transect Camera traps are fantastic. I have no idea how so much research into the more elusive […]
CONTINUE READINGDay 20: Alarms Are Raised After a Sun Bear Cub is Spotted in Our Cooking/Eating Hut Filmed and Edited by Martin Holland
CONTINUE READINGApologies from the Rainforest for the Lack of Videos…
CONTINUE READINGMartin Holland Introduces the Heart of Borneo Rainforest Foundation and Camp Foyle
CONTINUE READINGTeething Problems at Camp Foyle Mean Delays in Updates from the Field Expedition Leader, Martin Holland, talks about the difficulties and peculiarities of an interactive multimedia expedition Camp Foyle is up and running. It’s 12 days since we established the site, and we’ve been pretty rubbish at letting everyone know what’s been going on since […]
CONTINUE READINGFear and apprehension for the team as they try to recruit guides for the expedition in the village of Tumbang Tohan The Last Outpost Tumbang Tohan is the most remote village in this area. To the west and to the North the forest-covered, ravine ridden mountains of the Muller Schwarner range rise up into plateaus and […]
CONTINUE READINGThe Team Work With Local Guides to Cut Transects Through the Forest for their Research A transect is essentially a straight line which researchers can walk down with ease and use different methods to collect data about the different species present in the area. The terrain here is very hilly, and has made this process extremely difficult, […]
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