Bird is the word: KL hotel works with NGO to save Helmeted Hornbills

A nest box being set up in one of the jungles in Malaysia. — Xploregaia

Illegal trading and deforestation have brought Helmeted Hornbills in Malaysia dangerously close to extinction. They are on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List, meaning they are recorded as “critically endangered”.

There are only a handful of the the birds left in the wild today, no thanks to the loss of their nesting sites or tree cavities. A tree cavity is formed in the trunk of an old tree. However, due to logging activities, many of these tree cavities cannot be properly formed for the hornbills to nest in.