Extremely rare sighting raises hopes that larger mammals are more able to outlive in logged areas than previously thoughtOne of the world's most elusive wild cats has been captured on camera in a heavily logged area of Borneo rainforest together with four other endangered species,suggesting that some wildlife can survive in highly disturbed forests.
The Bornean bay cat (Pardofelis badia) has been recorded on camera traps on just a handful of occasions to date and was only photographed in the wild for the first time in southern Sarawak in 2003. The cat, extremely secretive and similar in size to a large domestic cat with a long tail and either a reddish or grey coat, and had been classified as extinct until modern images taken in Malaysian Borneo in 2009 and 2010 gave fresh hope for its survival.
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Source: theguardian.com