Participation and power in Indonesian oil palm plantations
Continue reading...Participation is commonly accepted to be a process that brings stakeholders together to de?ne issues and create mutually bene?cial outcomes. In the ?elds of development and natural resource management, participation is such a widely accepted part of policy that it is rare to ?nd a project or programme that does…
Nov 2012First record of the Borneo Earless Monitor Lanthanotus borneensis (Steindachner, 1877) (Reptilia: Lanthanotidae) in West Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo)
Continue reading...The following paper presents the first published record of the cryptic Borneo Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis Steindachner, 1877) from West Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). This sole member of the family Lanthanotidae is endemic to Borneo. Since its description in 1877, all locality records of specimens refer to…
Jul 2012Birds to watch: Significant recent sightings of Large Green Pigeon Treron capellei
Continue reading...The Large Green Pigeon Treron capellei was once widely distributed across Sumatra, the Thai-Malay Peninsula and Borneo and was locally very common, but serious declines have taken place and it is now scarce and very local (BirdLife International 2012). There are no recent records from Myanmar or Java, and it…
Jul 2012