Borneo Essays

With the rising threat of global warming, mostly due to the drastic increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from a multitude of sources such as; fossil fuels, animal waste products, the burning of forest and other vegetation etc. Normally the increase in Co2 emissions wouldn’t be that big of a problem as it would later be absorbed by plants containing chlorophyll, which would later be broken down into its base elements (carbon and oxygen). (Pickering) The carbon would be stored within the plant

Borneo, located in Southeast Asia, is a vast island divided amongst Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. It is the third largest island in the world, with a population of approximately 16 million. Borneo is home to the oldest tropical rainforests in the world, which are approximately 130 million years old. These extravagant rainforests have up until recently entirely covered the island. Amidst the world’s most biologically varied ecosystems, the tropical rainforests in Borneo are home to many animal and

The Battle of Borneo involved the Japanese, the Dutch and the British battling for certain territories of Borneo to get a strategic advantage for other battles to come. It happened during 13 December 1941 to 1 April 1942. The Japanese were led by Major General Kawaguchi. The Japanese, the Dutch and British were led by the principles of mission command which include competence, mutual trust, shared understanding, commander’s intent, mission orders, disciplines initiative, and risk acceptance. The

T. Coraghessen Boyle’s tone in his narrative “Top of the Food Chain”, conveys a casual conversation with a senator about the use of DDT in Borneo. This casual conversation also exemplifies his casual and reckless approach to the solution of insects plaguing the people of Borneo. Boyle’s passion blindfolded reasonable and reliable alternatives to help the insect problem. The ramification of dealing with the pesky insects causing disease and burden to this developing country were ill-researched and

The orangutans (pongo borneo) are mammals from primate group, considered to be very close relatives to humans, chimpanzees and gorillas. They are species found only in Asia, specifically rainforests of Sumatra and Borneo. Orangutans are 400 000 year old species and are considered to be one of the oldest, still existant primate species. One of the characteristics of these apes is their reddidh-brown fur, and bulky black skin. Physical aspects Orangutans have an enormous arm span. A male can stretch

also the largest arboreal mammals and the only great ape found in Asia, as the other three species can only be found in Africa. There are two known species of Orangutans, who are geographically separated, one species lives in the islands of Borneo (Pongo pygmaeus), and the other in the

Every state has a unique culture which defines the people and the national identity of that society. Department of the Army Field Manual 3-24, Counterinsurgency (2006), defines culture as a “web of meaning shared by members of a particular society or group within society” (p. 3-6). This manual adds that “culture conditions the individual’s range of action and ideas, including what to do and not to do, how to do it or not do it, and whom to do it with or not to do it with. Culture also includes

injuries, but less offspring. Another factor that is leading to the decline of the orangutans, is that they are forced into solitude. This is because the orangutan’s food supply is running low in the rain forest on the Southeast Asian islands of Borneo and Sumatra. Instead of adapting and trying new foods, they follow the tradition of their fathers and only eat food that their mothers taught them were okay to eat. From the lack of food, there isn’t enough for more than one orangutan in the area

Amur Leopard is critically endangered because it’s hunted illegally for its beautiful fur. Their population is estimated to be about sixty individuals, they live about ten to fifteen years in the wild and twenty in captivity. People are trying to save the animal from extinction by monitoring populations, protecting their habitats, and trying to stop poaching and trade. Javan rhinos are critically endangered because of genetic diversity, natural disasters, invasive spaces, and diseases. They are only

Prosimian suborder primates are characterized by their prominent noses and long queues and, in some species, by a tendency to lateral arrangement of the eyes. It was formerly included the Lemuriformes, Chiromyiformes, Lorisiformes and Tarsiiformes; these four show no characteristic justifying its session under the same taxon, so Prosimians are considered today as a group. The definition of prosimian in the Castilian dictionary is it is said of certain nocturnal primate mammals, small, with teeth

One organization is taking their work very seriously. WWF has been working on orangutan conservation since the 1970s in partnership with local and international groups. One example is an attempt to conserve the habitat. They work in both Borneo and Sumatra to secure well-managed protected areas and wider forest landscapes connected by corridors. They are promoting sustainable palm oil productions. In 2004, WWF helped set up the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil. This promoted the production

towards western countries escalated in World War II and the fall of Singapore in 1942, led to the capture of 15,000 Australians who became prisoners of war of the Japanese. Australian troops were imprisoned within Asia in places such as Sandakan in Borneo, Changi in Singapore and camps along the Thai-Burma railway. The experiences of these prisoners and the qualities they exhibited have become a vital part of Australian history, however,

Travel Tips 1. Typical costs a. Accommodation – Dorms start at 30-55 RM per night, with larger cities being on the high end of that spectrum. Private rooms rate are around 75 RM for a single room, and around 100 RM for a double. Budget hotels start at 80 RM. b. Food – A street meal will start under 4 RM and rarely cost more than 11 RM. Expect to pay 7-20 RM in restaurants. Western food will always cost more. Also, tipping is not expected in Malaysia but would not be refused. c. Transportation –

Swidden agriculture also known as slash-and-burn is depicted in a negative light because of myths that has been created from people who are not familiar with its practice or do not understands its purpose. One of the narrative is that it creates a useless and unsustainable land. This could be easily misunderstood as the image of the land after being burned can be seen lifeless and barren. People tend to associate a fertile land with lush greens with the sun in the background and not the image of

from trees better. Orangutans are reddish, brownish, orange. The big floppy cheeks on the orangutan are “flanges”. Male orangutans develop flanges at around 15-20 years of age. The orangutan only lives in the Sumatran rainforest and the island of Borneo, and is one of the largest apes. If the orangutan is not up in the trees(Which is where it gets around), it is on the ground crawling on all fours. Of course they have their knuckles tucked in. This is where the term knuckle walker comes from. Normally

For close to the first ten years of their lives, baby orangutans maintain incredibly intense relationships with their mothers. During these years, the mother and juvenile are in constant contact; the babies become permanent fixtures on their mother’s bodies, clutching their caretakers at all times. This period of nonstop apprenticeship prepares the orangutan to lead a more solitary adult life. Adult males are the only truly solitary orangutans, spending most of their time traversing across the forest

marsupial lion’s who don’t possess retractable claws anymore, or the koalas that have developed fingerprints which are indistinguishable from humans and platypus have beaks but they are mammals. The Wallace line runs through Indonesia and between Borneo and Sulawesi and continues through the Lombok Strait between Lombok and Bali. Which just happens to be where the Laurasian and Gondwana tectonic plates touch. The Wallace is an imaginary boundary which marks where the two sub-groups of species have

hyperexcitability, tremors, incoordination, and convulsions. Humans who are exposed to DDT, experience a strange prickling sensation of the mouth, nausea, dizziness, confusion, headache, lethargy, incoordination, vomiting, fatigue, and tremors. In Borneo, they parachuted cats to take care of rodents while the spraying of DDT was in the air, this resulted to killing many cats because of the ingestion of DDT, which led to increased rodent populations. This story encouraged people to want to ban DDT

first time went to England. He worked as a seaman on English ships, and in 1880 he began his career as an officer in the British merchant service. His travelling enabled him to go to distant countries such as Australia, India, Singapore, Java, and Borneo. All those travelling experiences, provided the background for most of his fiction. In 1886 he became a British citizen, and on that same year he changed his name into Joseph Conrad. In 1886 he travelled to the Belgian Congo, Zaire, and Africa, which

and Australia. In addition to the island of Java, animals and plants are unknown. Many islands are volcanic. Islands covered in tropical forest, a similar, but had different treasures. 2.All the birds of the family is very common in Sumatra, Java, Borneo absent from Aru, New Guinea and Australia, and vice versa. Between western and eastern island in Indonesia is also striking differences in mammals. On the big island in the west of the monkey, tiger, rhinos and. But without Aru primates and predators