Global Conservation Consortia (GCC) Workshops for Dipterocarps and Oaks of Brunei and Borneo.

In October and November 2021, Associate Professor Joeri Strijk of the Institute for Biodiversity and Environmental Research (IBER) and the Alliance for Conservation Tree Genomics (ACTG), led two online workshops…

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First photographic evidence of the elusive bay cat from Ulu Temburong National Park

https://iber.ubd.edu.bn/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/c2.mp4Researchers from the Institute for Biodiversity and Environmental Research (IBER), Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) have captured video footage of a rare Bornean cat, the bay cat (Catopuma badia) from Ulu…

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Tropical forests can handle the heat, up to a point: A Science Publication

https://youtu.be/mSHHqlAR6SQ A new publication in Science (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6493/869) has revealed that over the long-term, temperature has the greatest effect on forest carbon stocks by reducing growth, with drought killing trees the…

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