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While Sabah is home to Borneo’s iconic orangutans, another smaller, threatened primate species has received the focus of conservation efforts to protect and cultivate greater awareness on Sabah’s gibbons.
“We want to promote education and greater public awareness amid ongoing research as well as rehabilitation efforts to protect this wonderful species,” said Gibbon Conservation Society (GCS) President Mariani “Bam” Ramli who runs the Borneo Gibbon Rehabilitation Project, the first of its kind in the State.
The project also received a fund of RM100,000 from a German non-profit organisation Nepada Wildlife as a starter fund for Borneo GREP.
According to Mariani, the project will be stationed in Kampung Kiau in Kota Belud which will focus on two main species — the North Bornean Gibbon and Abott’s Grey Gibbon. The GCS is the second gibbon rehabilitation centre after the first in Raub, Pahang which have been in operation s
KOTA KINABALU: An effort to shine a light on gibbons, a lesser-known endangered species in Sabah, is underway with the introduction of a rehabilitation project in a village in Kota Belud.
Meet the Woman Risking Her Life to Protect the Endangered Gibbon
By Ellyn Kail on February 10, 2021
Bam Ramli, 33, founder of the GPSM (Gibbon Protection Society of Malaysia) holds 9 month-old Cinta at an undisclosed location in Pahang, Malaysia. Cinta was rescued from online traders during a sting operation. Bam is currently using her own house for the infants because they need constant care and GPSM doesn’t have the proper facilities yet. She says, “infants need a warm environment at night and need to be given milk every 4 hours.”
Bam is working tirelessly with the government of Malaysia to try to gain permission to build the first ever gibbon rehabilitation center in Malaysia. The GPSM operates off of Bam’s own money and private donations.