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Photo update 5: What else is in the forests?

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.

Thanks for your support!

New species photocaptures

Tiger_day_Rimba — Malayan Tiger (Panthera tigris)

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August 5, 2011August 9, 2017 by Rimba Categories: Home, Photos, Project UpdatesTags: Asian tapir, camera-trap, Kenyir, Kenyir Wildlife Corridor, leopard, Malayan tiger, marbled cat, melanistic, Reconyx, Rimba, sambar deer, sun bear, Trailcampro 1 Comment

Photo update 4: What’s in the forest and what’s under the bridge?

Here’s a long overdue photo update on the species of mammals photographed by our Reconyx camera traps in the Kenyir Wildlife Corridor Project.

While other camera traps used by our friends in WWF-Malaysia have flash that captures award-winning photos of wildlife and allow you to identify animal individuals to get density estimates, covert cameras such as ours may decrease the likelihood of your camera being destroyed by irritable elephants or encroachers who want souvenirs – it all depends on the objective of your study. In this project, we are mainly interested to know the species present in the forests and the species utilising viaducts over fixed time periods.

Fortunately, these camera traps are password-protected and have built-in cameras that would be of no use to a thief. Our cameras have been out for 3 months in the forests and we are happy to report the cameras retrieved so far were healthy and dry. Here are photos of several interesting species recorded from the forests and beneath the viaducts. Enjoy!

Interesting mammals recorded in forests

Clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) © Rimba – Acik, Dahar, Paul, Reuben and William

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July 14, 2011August 9, 2017 by Rimba Categories: Home, Photos, Project UpdatesTags: Asian elephant, Asian tapir, barking deer, camera-trap, clouded leopard, forest, golden cat, Kenyir Wildlife Corridor, leopard cat, mammal, Paul Henry, Reconyx, Reuben Clements, Rimba, serow, sun bear, viaduct, wild pig, William Yap 9 Comments

Project update 3: Kenyir forests are alive and about to be camera trapped!

Heads up folks! This is the first ever fieldwork update from the Kenyir Wildlife Corridor Project and we’re very excited to report that the Kenyir forests are alive and well!

We’ve just completed 4-km transects at more than 30 access points along the Kuala Berang highway. This highway cuts through three contiguous production forest reserves consisting mainly of lowland and hill dipterocarp forests. Our project site lies within a globally important Tiger Conservation Landscape, one of three priority areas according to the National Tiger Action Plan for Malaysia¹, and is also identified as Primary Linkage 7 in the Central Forest Spine (CFS) Master Plan for Ecological Linkages². So you can see why it’s important that we assess impacts of highway viaducts in this landscape.

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April 8, 2011August 9, 2017 by Rimba Categories: Home, Project, Project UpdatesTags: Asian elephant, Asian tapir, barking deer, camera-trap, Central Forest Spine, CFS Master Plan for Ecological Linkages, civet, conservation, cream-coloured giant squirrel, Department of Town and Country Planning, golden cat, HC500, highway, Kenyir Wildlife Corridor, leaf monkey, leopard, leopard cat, macaque, Malayan tiger, mammal, National Tiger Action Plan for Malaysia, occupancy, Paul Henry, Peninsular Malaysia, Perhilitan, Primary Linkage 7, Reconyx, sambar deer, sun bear, Trailcampro, viaduct, wild pig 5 Comments