By Ian Hall Damn! I wish I had my binoculars. My camera had also packed in the night before. Short of sitting on my specs I couldn’t have been more optically challenged. I needed a camera to photograph those mountains. Ever since I interviewed Doug Scott for a school essay aged 14 I have been [...]

Text and photos by Ian Hall I was up before dawn to watch the sun rise from the view point at Borneo Rainforest Lodge. I could see nothing on account of cloud and so I lay down on the bench and went to sleep for a while. I was woken up by an orang-utan rustling [...]

By Ian Hall Rounding a bend in the trail I spotted something large, blue and pitta-like bouncing away from me. Boing! boing! boing! and it was gone. I knew immediately what it was even though I had never seen one before. Damn! Damn! Damn! I cursed. There was no question that that was a Giant [...]

Not every day is a trogon day but sometimes when you head into the forest there is an air of expectation that you’ll see a trogon. Of course in those circumstances you never see one and it’s when you least expect it that they put in an appearance.

On the evening of 19th August 2008 we counted over 2300 Plain-pouched Hornbills crossing Lake Temengor. “A record for this year” declared Kim Chye. This is good news for a species that was not known to exist in Malaysia until 1998.