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BOTHELL, Wash., June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Borneo Resource Investments Ltd. (OTCQB: BRNE), (the "Company" or "Borneo"), today announced that on June 10, 2013, effective June 1, 2013, Borneo Resource Investments Ltd. (the "Company"), entered into agreements (the Deed of Sale of Shares, the Equity Entrustment Agreement and the Stock Purchase Agreement or collectively, the "Agreements") to purchase a 90% ownership interest in PT Puncak Kalabat, an Indonesia corporation ("Kalabat")....
University of Zurich Tropical plants flower at supra-annual irregular intervals. In addition, mass flowering is typical for the tropical forests in Borneo and elsewhere, where hundreds of different plant timber species from the Dipterocarpaceae family flower synchronously. This phenomenon is all the more puzzling because both temperature and day length are relatively constant all year round due to geographical proximity to the equator. Up to now it was supposed that several weeks of...
BOTHELL, Wash., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Borneo Resource Investments Ltd. (OTCQB: BRNE), (the "Company" or "Borneo"), today announced that it has made the Second Payment as required by the previously announced purchase agreement to acquire 100% ownership in a 50 hectare property in the North Minahasa Regency of North Sulawesi Province, one of the richest gold reserve areas in Indonesia. Nils Ollquist Borneo's Chief Executive Officer commented, "With this payment we have...
BOTHELL, Wash., March 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Borneo Resource Investments Ltd. (OTCQB: BRNE), (the "Company" or "Borneo"), today announced the execution of a purchase agreement with PT Puncak Kalabat ("Puncak") to acquire 100% ownership in a 30 hectare property ("Ratatotok Property") in the Southeast Minahasa Regency of the North Sulawesi Province, one of the richest gold reserve areas in Indonesia. The Ratatotok Property is located near the village of Ratatotok, approximately 3...
MUMBAI, India, March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- After a successful Routes Asia in Mumbai which saw over 700 hundred delegates in attendance, more than ever before, GVK's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) have officially handed the event over to Kuching, Sarawak the host destination for Routes Asia 2014. Building on the success of this year's event the largest route development forum for the entire Asia region will take place on 9-11 March 2014 in Kuching,...
BOTHELL, Wash., March 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Borneo Resource Investments Ltd. (OTCQB: BRNE), (the "Company" or "Borneo"), today announced that it signed the purchase agreement to acquire 100% ownership in a 50 hectare property in the North Minahasa Regency of North Sulawesi Province, one of the richest gold reserve areas in Indonesia. The purchase agreement supersedes the option agreement announced in early February. The property is located close to the regional capital, Manado,...
BOTHELL, Wash., Feb. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Borneo Resource Investments Ltd. (OTCQB: BRNE), (the "Company" or "Borneo"), today announced that it has entered into a formal agreement to acquire 100% ownership in a 50 hectare property in the North Minahasa Regency of North Sulawesi Province, one of the richest gold reserve areas in Indonesia. The property is located close to the regional capital, Manado, and lies on a gold reef formation which runs for approximately 20km (12 miles) on...
BOTHELL, Wash., Jan. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Mr. Nils Ollquist, Chairman and CEO of Borneo Resource Investments Ltd. (OTCQB: BRNE), (the "Company" or "Borneo"), issued the following report to the Company's shareholders. Below is the content of the report in its entirety. "We have received confirmation from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission informing us that we have successfully completed the review process for our Form 10. We are now ready to update shareholders...
MIAMISBURG, Ohio, Oct. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NewPage Corporation (NewPage) announced today its support of the World Resources Institute (WRI) in releasing new groundbreaking web applications created to help ensure that palm oil production is pursued in a way that avoids deforestation. These two publicly available web tools-the Forest Cover Analyzer and the Suitability Mapper--are the first of their kind, designed to enable companies and governments to implement commitments to...
In Southeast Asia, the island of Borneo is home to one of the world’s most diverse rainforests, but its natural resources are under threat. Information from satellites is being used to evaluate the impact of the island’s future development. The mountainous island is the third largest in the world. It is an area of exceptional biological diversity and its natural resources have tremendous social and economic value at local, national and global levels. While still of great importance,...
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The Sunda clouded leopard or the Sundaland clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi) is wildcat that can be found in Sumatra and Borneo. Its preferred habitat in Borneo occurs in lowland rainforests and possibly logged forests at an elevation below 4,900 feet. In Sumatra, it occurs in montane forests with abundant hills. There is not much information recorded about the Sunda leopard, because it is too elusive to study, but it is thought to be a solitary creature that hunts on the ground and uses...
The bay cat (Pardofelis badia) is a species that is native to Borneo. Its other common names include the Bornean marbled cat, the Bornean cat, and the Bornean bay cat. Although the bay cat is extensively distributed across many habitats on the island, it is rarely seen. Some of its preferred habitats include tropical and lowland forests, and possibly rocky areas with limestone near the coast of the island. It can be found at elevations between 1,600 and 5,900 feet, although these estimates...
The Bornean Clouded Leopard (Neofelis diardi), is a medium-sized wild cat found on Borneo, Sumatra and the Batu Islands in the Malay Archipelago. It was previously also found in Java, but no specimens have been recorded there since Neolithic times. Their preferred habitat is tropical and subtropical forest at altitudes up to about 6,500 ft. The habits of the Bornean Clouded Leopard are largely unknown because of the animal's secretive nature. It is assumed that it is generally a solitary...
The Borneo Pygmy Elephant, Elephas maximus borneensis, is a subspecies of the Asian Elephant and found in north Borneo. The origin of the Borneo Elephant was controversial. The two competing theories were that they were either native to that region, or were introduced. DNA research has discovered that the Borneo Elephants' ancestors separated from the mainland population during the Pleistocene Era, about 300,000 years ago. Since the Borneo elephant became isolated it has become smaller...
The Bornean orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus is a species of orangutan native to the island of Borneo. It is slightly larger than the other species of orangutan, the Sumatran orangutan. The Bornean orangutan is more common than the Sumatran, with about 45,000 individuals existing in the wild. There are only about 7,500 of the Sumatran species left in the wild. Orangutans are becoming increasingly endangered due to habitat destruction. Many orangutans are killed so that their babies can be captured...
