IBER Peat Swamp Ecology team
IBER and SMART researchers on a site visit to a new peat swamp forest location with the Forestry Department. Tropical peat swamp forests are unique ecosystems where forest vegetation exist…
Workshop on Genomic applications in Biodiversity Conservation
A workshop was organised by Institute for Biodiversity and Environmental Research (IBER) on July 18, 2022 at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD). The in-house workshop was delivered by two Visiting researchers…
Research Seminar on Value of Peat Swamp Forests
In support of the Brunei Forestry Department’s efforts in biodiversity and forest conservation in Brunei Darussalam, a research seminar on “Value of Peat Swamp Forests'' was co-organised by the Forestry…
Belalongensis: Volume 4, Issue 2
Belalongensis Vol.4 (2) by Office IBER
One year after Badas Tree Planting 2021 – A Researcher’s Note
It has been an eventful year since the launching of the Badas Tree Planting 2021. Two hundred Shorea albida or commonly known as Alan saplings were planted on the degraded…
Badas Tree Planting 2021: One Year Update
To commemorate the International Day of Forests Month in March 2021, a total of 200 saplings of Shorea albida was planted at the degraded area of the Badas Forest Reserve. This was…
Baseline Study of Sun Bears in Brunei Darussalam
The public is invited to participate in the questionnaire by clicking on the link for the forms:English: https://forms.gle/DTELaJ4PtD8npkU77Bahasa Melayu: https://forms.gle/6XS5PoQazDBZXiDh6Deadline : 31st March 2022Participants of the questionnaire will remain anonymous and…
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…
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…