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Last year I found a text in German in which Salomon Müller describes how he climbs Mount Singgalang in Sumatra, sees a pygmy squirrel on a mossy tree, and shoots it. I shared the text with a...
03 April 2018 5,498 9 View
Based on descriptions of 19th century explorers, we have this image of the original forests of Borneo consisting of huge trees, with little undergrowth and a completely closed canopy. But did the...
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In a recent critique of our paper on the third orangutan species, the author of a blog wrote that: "a “species” is not an arbitrary segment of nature’s continuum, but real entities that maintain...
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While recently looking at Ibisbills on the banks of a mountain river in Bhutan it struck me how well camouflaged the birds were with their dark chest bands being similar in colour and shape as the...
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I am trying to work out where in the world people have really changed the way they interact with their environment, either at regional (e.g., country-wide) or local scales (e.g., a town,...
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I am interested in quantifying and describing the social, cultural and economic importance of wild pigs and peccaries. The FAO estimates that more than 1.6 billion people depend to varying degrees...
03 September 2013 8,172 0 View
As Chair of the IUCN/SSC Wild Pig Specialist Group I am interested in how population recovery and growth of wild boars occurred in Europe, and why populations are now expanding. Presumably a...
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We are reviewing the taxonomy of the Giant Forest Hog and it appears that the eastern populations in Kenya, Ethiopia, and possibly also Sudan are distinct. The differences are clearly not clinal....
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We are looking into naming a new species of mammal. There is a name available based on 70,000 year old teeth from a population not far from where the new species occurs. That name was published in...
20 June 2013 4,222 65 View
I am coordinating the Borneo Futures initiative, a research program focused on generating scientific insights that will result in more optimal use of land, forests, and forest services, and better...
05 June 2013 6,181 18 View
I am thinking about the consequences of no-forestation policies, called for by a range of environmental groups such as Greenpeace and TFT, and what this could mean for development in forested...
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