• About us
    • About Us
    • Our Team
    • Partners & Supporters
    • Contact Us
  • Our work
        • what we do
          • Saving the Rainforest
          • Scientific Research
          • Community Development
          • Environmental Education
          • Outreach
        • Where we work
          • Sebangau Landscape
          • Rungan Landscape
          • Barito Ulu
        • Our stories
          • Latest News
          • Features
          • Press Room
  • Take action
    • Support a Campaign
    • Be a Fundraiser
    • Our Rainforest Experiences
    • Shop & Support
    • Donate
  • Login
  • Donate Now

Best of the Best: Camera traps from May 2015

  • Features
  • |
  • Posts
  • |
  • Wildlife
  • |


Orangutans, the man of the trees, actually spend a lot more time on the ground than previously thought. This month, despite the continued flooded state of the forest, we have several orangutans taking to the ground to move around the swamp.

A male orangutan travels through the swamp. Photo by OuTrop

A study investigating how often orangutans come to the ground was published last year with data from 7 different sites across Indonesian and Malaysian Borneo, including the Sabangau Forest. We are delighted to be able to show you a video of an orangutan travelling on the ground.

Spooky! An orangutan stares into our tree canopy camera trap! Photo by OuTrop


We also have a video of one of our resident male clouded leopards, scanning the forest, as well as a short-tailed mongoose scampering on the boardwalks, a cheeky video of pig-tailed macaques and a photo of a sun bear avoiding the water.

We captured some exciting footage during May so check out OuTrop’s Flickr account to see the full selection of ‘Best of May 2015’ here.

A resident male clouded leopard. Photo by OuTrop

We are thrilled to share with you that we have received funding from the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium Holly Reed Conservation Fund to replace some of our broken cameras so we will be able to bring you even more images and news from the camera traps in the coming months.

A big thank you to the Clouded Leopard Project, Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium and Fresno Chaffee Zoo for supporting this project.






Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

PrevPreviousSpecies Series: The cryptic clouded leopard
NextSpecies Series – mouse deerNext

Related Articles

Sign up to our monthly newsletter and get updates on our activities.

"(Required)" indicates required fields

Name(Required)
This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Borneo Nature Foundation is a non-profit conservation organisation. We work to protect some of the most important areas of tropical rainforest and to safeguard the wildlife, environment and indigenous culture on Borneo.

UK REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 1194359

TAKE ACTION

  • Support a Campaign
  • Be a Fundraiser
  • Our Rainforest Experience
  • Shop & Support
  • Donate
  • Support a Campaign
  • Be a Fundraiser
  • Our Rainforest Experience
  • Shop & Support
  • Donate

ABOUT US

  • Our Story
  • Press Room
  • Contact Us
  • Careers
  • Books
  • Our Story
  • Press Room
  • Contact Us
  • Careers
  • Books
Copyright 2025 Borneo Nature Foundation. All Rights Reserved.
FOLLOW US:
Facebook-f Twitter Instagram Youtube
Subscribe to OUR NEWSLETTER HERE