Like most Malaysians out there, we at Rimba have been enjoying the week-long double holiday. We hope everyone had a good Hari Raya and Hari Merdeka!
Meanwhile, Ahimsa has been keeping himself busy with elephant-related activities. Continue reading
Like the fantastic wildlife photos we’ve been capturing through our camera-trapping work?? Well, using a camera-trap can seem daunting at first, but it’s easily learned, and constant practice will help you hone your skills in no time. We at Rimba owe our camera-trapping experience to our dedicated and hardworking wildlife biologist friends over at WWF-Malaysia. Having carried out biodiversity monitoring work in Peninsular Malaysia since 2005, these tireless field scientists have scoured miles and miles of inhospitable terrain and camped out in dense jungle for weeks at a stretch, all in search of that perfect camera-trap location to obtain valuable evidence of elusive wildlife. They’re now one of the most experienced and knowledgeable researchers when it comes to camera-trapping large mammals in tropical rainforests.
These guys have had plenty of opportunity to develop their skills, and their hard work paid off when one of their camera-trap photos won the BBC Wildlife Magazine’s Camera-trap Photo of the Year in 2010. Happily for the rest of us, they’ve decided to use their vast experience to help out fellow researchers. Continue reading
The Kenyir Wildlife Corridor is really teeming with mammals!
Here are more interesting mammal species caught on our camera traps in Kenyir’s forests. We have the king of the jungle, the Malayan tiger, heading our list of new species photocaptures. We have also included new photos of species that we featured earlier.
We have entered two of our photos in the international category of the 2011 Trailcampro trail camera photo contest. If you have the time, please vote for picture #53 or #54 in the International section here (if you prefer ours over the other nice wildlife photos of course). We stand to win a new camera trap to help augment our camera trap coverage in the corridor.
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New species photocaptures
For the rest of the photos… Continue reading
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