These Corridors Connect Forests and Save Wildlife

Conservationists in Borneo have been creating “wildlife corridors” that connect once-fragmented forests in an effort to freely allow endangered species to pass through.

“[Our] work in Kinabatangan and other areas shows that creating forest corridors between isolated patches of forest occupied by orangutans contributes to sustaining viable orangutan meta-populations over large landscapes,” says Marc Ancrenaz, head of the local conservation organization Hutan.

Other conservation groups are involved in the area, with the Rhino and Forest Fund (RFF) aiming to reconnect the Tabin and Kulambra wildlife reserves and restore native trees and grasses. After a decade of work, the RFF is finally seeing wild and rare animals in their restored restoration sites. With the major threat to these species being the fragmentation of land in the area – as opposed to poaching or deforestation, – conservationists and wildlife groups alike are improving the livelihoods of many endangered species by reconnecting critical ecosystems.