Reference Base Notes for: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (3) 1 2 3  Andau, P.M. 1987 Conservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros in Sabah, Malaysia. Rimba Indonesia 21 (1): 39-47, fig. 3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Logging in the Silabukan area has continued. Two 4-wheel drive vehicles have been purchased through IUCN/WWF Project No: 1972 to assist Rangers of the Game Branch, Sabah Forestry Department in protecting rhinos in the Silabukan region.   details Andau, P.M. 1987 Conservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros in Sabah, Malaysia. Rimba Indonesia 21 (1): 39-47, fig. 3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino A comprehensive series of amendments to the Sabah legislation relevant to rhino conservation were drafted earlier this year, and are currently under review. Suggested amendments include a mandadory minimum jail sentence for anyone found in possession of rhino part or product. At present heavy p...   details Andau, P.M. 1987 Conservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros in Sabah, Malaysia. Rimba Indonesia 21 (1): 39-47, fig. 3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino In 1985, the Sabah Government formed the Sabah Rhino & Wildlife Conservation Committee (SRWCC) in response to the need for urgent measures to save the endangered Sumatran rhino in Sabah. The. committee was given a grant of MR 3,000,000 and the responsibility of translocating or capturing isolate...   details Andau, P.M. 1987 Conservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros in Sabah, Malaysia. Rimba Indonesia 21 (1): 39-47, fig. 3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Sabah, showing reports received 1980-1985 of areas with 1-2 rhinos remaining, evidence of killing, unconfirmed reports.   details Andau, P.M. 1987 Conservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros in Sabah, Malaysia. Rimba Indonesia 21 (1): 39-47, fig. 3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Since the 1982 AsRSG Meeting, Sabah Foundation has officially designated Danum Valley (42,755 ha) as a Conservation Area in its long-term management plan for its concession, in which no logging will be allowed. A road has been constructed to meet the eastern boundary of the Conservation Area, an...   details Shariff, K.M. 1984 Jeram. Perhilutan 4 (2): 19-22 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Conservation Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Schenkel, R. 1983 The Sumatran rhino at Silabukan, Sabah. Malayan Naturalist 36 (4): 10 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino For most of the Silabukan range the Sabah Foundation has a logging concession. At present several logging teams are operating. Evidently this causes serious disturbance for the rhinos. Some time ago a rhino was shot by the loggers. The objectives in the interest of conservation are: (1) to st...   details Andau, P.M.; Payne, J. 1982 The plight of the Sumatran rhinoceros in Sabah. [Report] presented at the 8th Malaysia Forestry Conference, Sandakan-Sabah Cyclostyled, pp 1-14, 2 maps. Report, pp. 1-13 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Following a biological survey in 1976, a WWF-Malaysia report recommended that Danum Valley be gazetted as a National Park. This was not to be since the area lies within the Sabah Foundation's 100-year logging concession, and the Foundation was unwilling to relinquish it.   details Payne, J. 1982 Species conservation priorities in the tropical rain forests of Sabah, East Malaysia: pp. 23-26, figs. 1-5 In: Mittermeier, R.A. et al. Species conservation priorities in the tropical forests of South East Asia. Proceedings of a Symposium held at the 58th Meeting of the IUCN Species Survival Commission. Gland, IUCN (Occasional Papers of the IUCN Species Survival Commission, number 1): pp. 1-58 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Conservation Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Andau, P.M. 1982 Conservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros in the Silabukan area of Sabah. Sabah Forest Department (unpublished report), pp. 1-7 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Davies, G.; Payne, J. 1982 A faunal survey of Sabah. Report by World Wildlife Fund Malaysia for Game Branch, Forest Dept. Sabah, pp. 1-294 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Anonymous 1981 Sumatran rhino killed in eastern Sabah. International Zoo News 28 (4): 41-42 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Forest guards stumbled across the carcase of a freshly-killed rhino. Poachers had hacked off the head and removed all the toenails. The decapitated rhino was found on a logging road in the Silabukhan Forest Reserve near Lahad Datu in Sabah. It is believed that the poachers snared the animal wi...   details Anonymous 1981 Sumatran rhinos turn up in Sabah. International Zoo News 28 (2): 36 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Wildllife experts have found fresh tracks of Sumatran Rhino, reported in March 1981. There may be as many as 10 rhinos in the lowland forests of Silabukan on the coast of Sabah, Patrick Andau, the assistant game warden said. Intensive logging activities are a real threat to the future survival....   details Payne, J. 1980 Report on rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) in Silabukan Forest Reserve, Sabah. Sabah Forest Department (unpublished report), pp. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Medway, Lord 1977 Mammals of Borneo, field keys and an annotated checklist. Kuala Lumpur, MBRAS (Monograph no. 7), pp. i-xii, 1-172 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Harrisson (1961b) later suggested that there were then `probably not more than thirty in the whole island'. J. L. Harrison (pers. comm., 1962) saw tracks on G. Kinabalu.   details Medway, Lord 1977 Mammals of Borneo, field keys and an annotated checklist. Kuala Lumpur, MBRAS (Monograph no. 7), pp. i-xii, 1-172 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino P. F. Burgess (in litt., 1963) found reliable evidence of animals surviving at S. Bole on the Segama, the Dent Peninsula, upper S. Kalumpang and Ulu Kuamat, Sabah. A less pessimistic estimate of numbers in eastern Sabah was given in 1970 (Anon., 1970), but was not corroborated by detailed eviden...   details Medway, Lord 1977 Mammals of Borneo, field keys and an annotated checklist. Kuala Lumpur, MBRAS (Monograph no. 7), pp. i-xii, 1-172 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino The original range of this rhinoceros undoubtedly covered all mainland Borneo, but by the time of the first scientific investigations of the mammal fauna, human depredations had already begun to take their toll and the species was rare in settled areas. That its natural habitat was not restricte...   details Medway, Lord 1977 Mammals of Borneo, field keys and an annotated checklist. Kuala Lumpur, MBRAS (Monograph no. 7), pp. i-xii, 1-172 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino In 1976, tracks were found, and a provisional sighting made, in the area of the proposed Danum reserve, S. Segama, Sabah (D. R. Wells, pers. comm.).   details Harrisson, T. 1975 The rhinoceros - and mammal extinction in general. Borneo Research Bulletin 7 (2): 71-72 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino All recent sightings of spoor only, and all of them in the largely uninhabited Segama-Kinabatangan upriver areas of eastern Sabah.   details MacKinnon, J. 1974 In search of the red ape. New York, Ballantine Books, pp. i-xiv, 1-211 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino One of the rarest animals of the forest was the two-horned rhino, much prized for its fabled horns which are supposed to have great healing properties and act as a powerful aphrodisiac. At the turn of the century the rhino was not uncommon in the Segama area and they were often hunted by Dusuns w...   details Sandilands, B. 1974 Rhino sightings in Sabah. Borneo Research Bulletin 6 (2): 56 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Survey of Ulu Karamuak. Rhino evidence found in 1960. Undisturbed by logging. In 1972 surveyed the area and after a five day search in all directions, found no evidence of rhino.   details Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Names in vernacular Sumatran Rhino Badak berendam   details Jenkins, D.V. 1971 Animal life of Kinabalu National Park. Malayan Nature Journal 24 (3/4): 177-183, pls. 59-60, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Kinabalu National Park, created under National Park ordinance of 1962, area 275 sq. miles. It is known to be the haunt of the Sumatran rhino, which has been senselessly hunted over centuries. It is hoped that the establishment of the national park will help in its re-establishment. In 1961 the...   details Carson, G.L. 1968 Conservation in Sabah, Malaysia: pp. 492-497 In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Status Sumatran Rhino nearly extinct   details Silva, G.S. de 1968 Wildlife conservation in the state of Sabah: pp. 144-150 In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Status Sumatran Rhino nearly extinct   details Silva, G.S. de 1968 Wildlife conservation in the state of Sabah: pp. 144-150 In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Fauna Conservation Ordinance, 1963 (Act No. 11 of 1963) came into force on 15 July 1964. Sumatran rhino completely protected. Maximum penalty five years imprisonment and a fine of $5000   details Silva, G.S. de 1968 Wildlife conservation in the state of Sabah: pp. 144-150 In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Very occasionally tracks are reported. The last time an animal was seen by a member of the Forest Department was in 1957.   details Medway, Lord 1965 Niah Cave animal bone, VIII: Rhinoceros in late quaternary Borneo. Sarawak Museum Journal 12 (25/26): 77-82, pl. 21 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Mounted head. Locality: Sabah, S. Tingkayu. In coll. National Museum, Singapore   details Harrisson, T. 1965 A future for Borneo's wildlife?. Oryx 8 (2): 99-104 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Status Sumatran Rhino 11-13all but one on the north-east   details Medway, Lord 1965 Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36 (3): i-xi, 1-193, figs. 1-9, map 1, pls. 1-34 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino There are recent reports of animals encountered or tracks seen in Sabah on G. Kinabalu (J.L. Harrison, personal communication, 1962).   details Medway, Lord 1965 Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36 (3): i-xi, 1-193, figs. 1-9, map 1, pls. 1-34 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Eighteen years later, Harrisson (1949) wrote, `there are now almost certainly no rhinoceros left in Sarawak', although he was able to report observations in 1946 from the upper S. Padas, in Sabah,   details Medway, Lord 1965 Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36 (3): i-xi, 1-193, figs. 1-9, map 1, pls. 1-34 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino In the Kelabit uplands Harrisson later found (Harrisson, in Davis, 1958) that `the Sumatran rhinoceros, once common in the area - in the last century even breaking fences around padi fields - has not been reported anywhere in the area for twenty years. There are living Kelabits who have killed m...   details Medway, Lord 1965 Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36 (3): i-xi, 1-193, figs. 1-9, map 1, pls. 1-34 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino There are specimens from S. Tingkayu, in the former East Coast Residency, Sabah (SNM, fide Davis, 1962).   details Medway, Lord 1965 Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36 (3): i-xi, 1-193, figs. 1-9, map 1, pls. 1-34 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino The near extermination of the species has been rapid. In Sabah, a little over eighty years ago, in the vicinity of Sandakan, Pryer (1881) found rhinoceroses `not infrequent; the tracks of one or two may usually be seen in the course of a walk in the low districts.' There are specimens from Sand...   details Medway, Lord 1965 Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36 (3): i-xi, 1-193, figs. 1-9, map 1, pls. 1-34 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino There are recent reports of animals encountered or tracks seen in Sabah on G. Kinabalu (J.L. Harrison, personal communication, 1962) and towards the east coast, `at S. Bole on the Segama. There are also reliable records for the Dent Peninsula, Ulu S. Kalumpang and Ulu Kuamat' (P.F. Burgess, in l...   details Davis, D.D. 1962 Mammals of the lowland rain-forest of North Borneo. Bulletin of the Singapore National Museum 31: 1-129, pls. 1-23, figs. 1-20 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Mounted head. Locality: Tingkayu, North Borneo. In coll. National Museum, Singapore   details Davis, D.D. 1962 Mammals of the lowland rain-forest of North Borneo. Bulletin of the Singapore National Museum 31: 1-129, pls. 1-23, figs. 1-20 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino It is well known in North Borneo.   details Davis, D.D. 1962 Mammals of the lowland rain-forest of North Borneo. Bulletin of the Singapore National Museum 31: 1-129, pls. 1-23, figs. 1-20 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino The only North Bornean specimen I have seen is a mounted head exhibited in the Singapore National Museum and labelled Tingkayu, North Borneo, 1927. Tingkayu is a river on the east coast, emptying into Darvel Bay.   details Corner, E.J.H. 1961 Royal Society expedition to North Borneo 1961: Reports. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 175 (1): 9-32, pls. 1-18, figs. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Royal Society Expedition. Camp 3 (8300 ft). It was here that ben Esoli first drew my attention to some tooth-marks on the bark of a tree, which he recognized as those of a rhinoceros, and he pointed out the rotten trunks which they had been eating, as is their wont. Camp 4, ridge at 10,000 f...   details Corner, E.J.H. 1961 Royal Society expedition to North Borneo 1961: Reports. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 175 (1): 9-32, pls. 1-18, figs. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino North Borneo. Camp 3 (8300 ft). It was here that ben Esoli first drew my attention to some tooth-marks on the bark of a tree, which he recognized as those of a rhinoceros, and he pointed out the rotten trunks which they had been eating, as is their wont.   details Davis, D.D. 1958 Mammals of the Kelebit plateau, northern Sarawak. Fieldiana Zoology 39 (15): 119-147, fig. 21, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino The Sumatran rhino, once common in the area, in the last century even breaking fences around padi fields, has not been reported anywhere in the area for twenty years. There are living Kelabits who have killed more than ten.   details Harrisson, T. 1955 Borneo fauna anxieties. Oryx 3 (3): 134-137 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Twenty years ago the rhino was still common over Borneo. Within living memory it came down into village areas and did damage in the ricefields of the Kelabit plateau.   details Harrisson, T. 1949 Explorations in Central Borneo. Geographical Journal, London 114: 129-149, pls. 1-3, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Status Sumatran Rhino some   details Harrisson, T. 1949 The large mammals of Borneo. Malayan Nature Journal 4: 70-76 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino In North Borneo, where full protection has long been in force, a considerable number are now believed to survive, mainly in the north-east, according to information from Mr. H.G. Keith. A single animal was reported in the Upper Padas in early 1946, and was later said to have moved back east.   details Comyn Platt, T. 1937 A report on fauna preservation in British North Borneo. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 30: 52-55 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino I understand there are still a few left. But realziing the great demand the Customs Authorities take every precaution to prevent the export.   details Evans, I.H.N. 1922 Among the primitive peoples in Borneo. London, Seeley, pp. 1-318 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino mountain range in Western Sabah. There may be an occasional rhinoceros on the range which runs from Kinabalu in the direction of Kudat [6.54 N, 116.50 E]   details Evans, I.H.N. 1922 Among the primitive peoples in Borneo. London, Seeley, pp. 1-318 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino There may be an occasional rhinoceros on the range which runs from Kinabalu in the direction of Kudat. [Kudat, 06.54 N, 116.50 E]   details Ridley, H.N. 1916 Notes In: Shelford, R.W.C. A naturalist in Borneo. Edited with a biographical introduction by Edward B. Poulton. London, T.Fisher Unwin: pp. i-xxxviii, 1-331 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Rhinoceros is common in British North Borneo, I passed four in one trip.   details Hanitsch, R. 1908 Guide to the zoological collections of the Raffles Museum, Singapore. Singapore, Straits Times Press, pp. i-iii, i-iv, 1-112 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Museums Sumatran Rhino Skeleton. Locality: North Borneo. Collected by: Mr. Rowe, 1901. In coll. Raffles Museum, Singapore   details Hanitsch, R. 1908 Guide to the zoological collections of the Raffles Museum, Singapore. Singapore, Straits Times Press, pp. i-iii, i-iv, 1-112 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Skeleton. Locality: North Borneo. Collected by: Mr. Rowe, 1901. In coll. Raffles Museum, Singapore   details Anonymous 1903 A unique pet (in North Borneo). Rugby Advertiser Tuesday 21 April 1903: 2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Captivity Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Mynah 1889 Sport in North Borneo. Field, the country gentleman's newspaper 1889 March 30: 430 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Mynah 1889 Sport in North Borneo. Field, the country gentleman's newspaper 1889 August 3: 189 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Flower, W.H.; Garson, J.G. 1884 Catalogue of specimens illustrating the osteology and dentition of vertebrated animals, recent and extinct, contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. London, Royal College of Surgeons, vol. 2, pp. i-xliii, 1-779 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Skull. Locality: North Borneo. Collected by: W.B. Tegetmeier, 1882. In Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, United Kingdom. Catalogue number: 2145   details Flower, W.H.; Garson, J.G. 1884 Catalogue of specimens illustrating the osteology and dentition of vertebrated animals, recent and extinct, contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. London, Royal College of Surgeons, vol. 2, pp. i-xliii, 1-779 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Museums Sumatran Rhino Skull. Locality: North Borneo. Collected by: W.B. Tegetmeier, 1882. In Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, United Kingdom. Catalogue number: 2145   details Pryer, W.B. 1881 Animal life in Borneo. Zoologist (3) 5 (58): 393-398 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Rhinoceroses are not infrequent. The tracks of one or two may usually be seen in the course of a walk in the low districts.   details Burbidge, F.W. 1880 The gardens of the sun, or a naturalist's journal on the mountains and in the forests and swamps of Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago. London, John Murray, pp. i-xix, 1-364 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Mr Dobree [a coffee planter] showed us the skin of a young rhinoceros which he had shot in the mudpool near the Sagaliad river, about 20 miles from Sandakan. The lower horn was 3 inches in length, the upper one only just growing.   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (3) 1 2 3