WE all know about tsunamis by earthquakes or other seismic activities. Their destructive capabilities were well documented in the devastation…

HOW much do we really know about the elusive Malaysian pangolin (Manis javanica)? The name pangolin was first coined in…

THE acrid smell of the air and its pungent taste invaded after the drying weeks in September and the first…

THE title of this article sounds like it came from the chorus lines of an Italian opera. From the Latin…

WHILE trekking along the Danum River in Eastern Sabah, a tiger leech attached itself to my bare foot and swelled…

WHILST removing a fattened sheep tick from my dog’s belly, I remembered the bloodsuckers of Borneo. On a visit to…

“WHEN will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?” This is from Pete Seeger’s composition in 1955 – ‘Where…

I WONDER if the foundations of the present Malaysian Nature Society were firmly laid by such eminent Victorian naturalists as…