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 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 READINGOur Research is Not Only Focused on the Diverse Fauna we are Finding Here, But Looks at the Plant Species Which Make up the Rainforest By Lara Rogers, Assistant Lead Scientist When coming on a research expedition people are always asking you which animal you’re heading out to study. Whilst my interest is in mammals […]
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 READINGRusty’s thoughts on the ‘delights’ of the forest By Rusty Goodchild, Researcher So the worms are soon to be taken care of, we have quite a large amount of anti-worm medication being delivered in the next few days (presumably it’s the same stuff you put in dog food to stop them scratching), and the battle […]
CONTINUE READINGSub-Cutaneous Worm Infestation and More Foot Rot By Holli Kilburn, Canopy Researcher The Tropical Rainforest is a closed energy system – very little comes in or goes out and there is a high rate of turnover so things rot very fast here, including us! Over half the team have parasitic worms and/or foot-rot. My right foot […]
CONTINUE READINGOne solution to a serious problem in the rainforest – jam envy!! By Dan Sargison, Base Camp Technician When I initially became involved in this expedition, in the planning, the endless points to discuss, research and consider, food was often brought up. And rightly so! It’s our fuel and can make or break the morale […]
CONTINUE READINGA Passionate and Personal Account Introduces our Research into the Rainforest Lead Scientist, Tim van Berkel, takes you into the rainforest and describes how we are studying it Mud, mosquitoes, sweat, leeches, wait-a-while-thorn-trees, rain, venomous spiders, snakes and poisonous fruits and millipedes. My first impression of a rainforest, over eight years ago now, has not […]
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