Nicola K. Abram

TL;DR: The native forests of Borneo have been impacted by selective logging, fire, and conversion to plantations at unprecedented scales since industrial-scale extractive industries began in the early 1970s, and there is still hope for biodiversity conservation.

TL;DR: A regional study to investigate spatial and economic components of forest conversion to oil palm within a tropical floodplain in the Lower Kinabatangan, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, with globally relevant implications for similar floodplain landscapes undergoing forest transformation to agriculture such as oil palm.

TL;DR: It is suggested that forest patches, even when small, fragmented and degraded, are required to sustain the species in human-transformed landscapes, which are incompatible with viable populations of orang-utans.

TL;DR: A large scale island-wide land-use masterplan is needed that clarifies which possible land uses and managements are allowed in the landscape and provides new standardized strategic conservation policies to avoid potential decline in orang-utan habitats.

TL;DR: This article found that forest use and cultural values are highest among people on Borneo who live close to remaining forest, and especially among older Christian residents, while support for forest clearing depended strongly on the scale at which deforestation occurs.