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Scientists Identify New Carnivorous Plant that Traps Prey Underground

During a several-day trip with Indonesian colleagues to the Indonesian province of North Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo, botanist Martin Dančák of Czech’s Palacký University noted plants which were undoubtedly Nepenthes but produced no pitchers. After a careful search, they found a couple of aerial pitchers, which led them…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jul 2, 2022

Huge Gomantong Caves filled with rats, bats and cockroaches - but tourists still visit

The Gomantong Caves in Malaysian Borneo play host to a great variety of alarming, nightmare inducing animals, from scuttling giant centipedes and rats, to large spiders and cockroaches

Daily Mirror · Jun 7, 2022

A tale of two cities: why Indonesia is planning a new capital on Borneo – and abandoning Jakarta. Podcast

Indonesia plans to move its capital city from Jakarta on the island of Java to a new forest city on the island of Borneo called Nusantara. We talk to three experts in urban planning and ecology to find out why – and what the environmental impacts of the project could…

The Conversation · Apr 14, 2022