Associate Professor Kimberly Fornace (left) and two researchers from her team inspect dead mosquitoes retrieved from Mosquito Magnets. They are sorting the mosquitos by genus - isolating both the Anopheles mosquito and Ades mosquito from other types of mosquito - in the Danau Girang Research Centre library office, Kinabatangan, Sabah.
Kim inserts an Anopheles mosquito into a tube at the Danau Girang Research Centre, Kinabatangan, Sabah.
Associate Professor Kimberly Fornace who leads the mosquito project poses for a portrait at dusk at the jetty house of the Danau Girange Research Centre, Kinabatangan, Sabah.
An aerial view of the Kinabatangan river, Kinabatangan, Sabah.
A close-up shot of a long-tailed monkey, also known as a crab-eating macaque, sitting in a tree in the jungle, Kinabatangan, Sabah.
A wide shot of a researcher carrying a Mosquito Magnet, which attracts and captures mosquitoes, through the jungle over his shoulder in the late morning, Kinabatangan, Sabah.
Amaziasizamoria “Maz” Jumail, the team’s project coordinator (front), and Kimberly Fornace carry Mosquito Magnets, which attracts and captures mosquitoes, through the jungle over their shoulders in the late morning, Kinabatangan, Sabah.
The mosquito research team set up a Mosquito Magnet which attracts and captures mosquitoes in the jungle at dusk, Kinabatangan, Sabah.
The mosquito research team set up a Mosquito Magnet which attracts and captures mosquitoes in the jungle at dusk, Kinabatangan, Sabah.
At dawn, researchers from the Danau Girang Research Centre remove a net of mosquitos caught inside a Mosquito Magnet which had been set up in the jungle the night before, Kinabatangan, Sabah.
A researcher pilots a drone - which captures thermal images - watching it as it takes flight in the late afternoon in the jungle, Kinabatangan, Sabah. Thermal imaging helps to identify the monkeys in the trees.
Kim studies the done images coming through on the control device. The team are also using the drone to compare monkey sighting numbers with the numbers recorded by human eyesight in order to be able to do rapid population estimates in the future.
An over-the-shoulder shot of a researcher gazing at the remote control screen of a thermal imaging drone camera he is flying over the jungle, Kinabatangan, Sabah.
Kim looks for long tailed macaques in the jungle trees early in the morning while a researcher tracks where the monkeys have been sighted using a GPS tracking machine, Kinabatangan, Sabah.
Kim and members of her research team travel by boat along the Kinabatangan river, on their way to set up Mosquito Magnets in the surrounding jungle, Kinabatangan, Sabah.
An aerial, bird’s-eye view of the tops of palm trees in a palm oil plantation located close to the Danau Girang Research Centre, Kinabatangan, Sabah.
Malaysia fails to eliminate malaria as a new parasite swings out of the jungle.
Deep in the Malaysian Borneo jungle, a team of researchers led by Associate Professor Kimberly Fornace are hooking a green machine up to a propane gas canister. The team are here to catch mosquitos. Above them, the cries of long tailed macaques can be distantly heard coming from the dense tree tops. Malaysia was on the brink of eradicating human malaria. Yet in its place, monkey malaria has been flourishing, driven to an extent by deforestation for palm oil production. Once captured by the so-called Mosquito Magnets, Kimberly’s team brings bags of mosquitoes back to the Danau Girang Research Centre where they are frozen; here, the Anopheles mosquitoes are sorted out from the other species. These are then sent to a laboratory in Kota Kinabalu where PCR tests are run to determine whether the mosquitoes have been infected with the Knowlsei parasite and helps the team understand the rate of parasitic transmission. Experts fear that this new parasite could one day start spreading from human to human. Thousands of monkeys have already been infected. Shot for The Telegraph.