BORNEO RHINO ALLIANCE

Borneo Rhino Alliance (BORA) is an NGO based in Sabah. Active since year 2008, BORA cares for the last three living Sumatran rhinos left in Malaysia, in managed facilities in Tabin Wildlife Reserve... For Borneo Rhino Alliance (BORA), the deaths of the last native rhinos in Malaysia has prompted us to consider our next steps. This process has forced us to contemplate all that we have worked towards over these past years and the remarkable support we have received in our mission to save the Sumatran Rhino in Malaysia. Sime Darby Foundation had supported BORA's work on the Hairy (Sumatran) rhino from 2009 to 2016 when, time and again, hopes were dashed and it became clear that the Foundation was supporting a unique but increasingly high-risk project. The Chairman, Tun Musa Hitam, and CEO, Hjh. Dr. Yatela Zainal Abidin, stuck their necks out repeatedly in the hope that the work being done would turn around the steady decline in options to save the species in Malaysia. Although they, …..