King cobra and python in incredible snake combat. Place your bets now!! Herpetologist, Dale Mortiboys regales you with the fight of expedition There is no way of explaining the wonder, fear and excitement I felt as I waded in to the river. Branches tugged at my quickly tied boots but my eyes remained fixed on the […]
CONTINUE READINGTake part in the Camera Trap Quiz to win a Live! Skype Chat with our expedition team in the rainforest for your class. Open to all ages! Simply guess the animal we’ve caught footage of on our camera traps since we’ve been here, and email your answer to: basecamp@heartofborneo.org Good luck!
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 READINGIs it a bird? Is it a Plane? No, It is a lizard with elongated ribs flying. Well I say flying, more like controlled gliding really. Herpetologist, Dale Mortiboys gets excited about real life dragons. Lizards are fascinating to me. I have spent many hours of my life running after them. I have never seen […]
CONTINUE READINGA frog that uses disguise and patience to get a meal. Herpetologist, Dale Mortiboys lures you in to loving a leaf-shaped frog I have always wanted to see the Bornean Horned frog (Megophrys nasuta). It is a charismatic frog but not in the classical way. Instead of relying on powerful legs to hop away from predation […]
CONTINUE READINGZen and the art of tree climbing By Holli Kilburn, Researcher, Canopy It is estimated that more than 70% of life in the rainforest can be found in the trees, not an unreasonable statement when you think that the forest is mostly made up of trees, right? So by bringing canopy access into our scientific tool-kit […]
CONTINUE READINGGibbons Wake up the Forest as Lara Introduces her Research into the Hybrid Species Found Here Filmed and Edited by Martin Holland Lara Is Setting off up The Joloi River with a Sub-Team in Search of a Hybrid Species of Gibbon By Lara Rogers, Assistant Lead Scientist So it’s now my last night at Camp […]
CONTINUE READINGDuring the Murung Raya Expedition, the team will use the latest satellite communications equipment sponsored by Livewire Digital Ltd to interact with the rest of the world, with two live video links into the Natural History Museum, London Head to the Natural History Museum on Saturday 15th January to take part in a live Q&A. […]
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