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Ngumbang Juat Ngumbang is
Chief Instructor for BCSS and is involved with all our workshops. In between workshops, he looks at ways to
monitor gibbons from their calls. Previously he worked for
WCS Malaysia Program for 8 years, monitoring wildlife in
logging areas. He has an MSc in entomology from Universiti
Sains Malaysia and an MRes from St Andrews University,
Scotland. |
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Voon Mu Feng ("Fen")
Fen is currently working with Sarawak Forestry Corporation
as an Executive. Previously she worked with WCS Malaysia for
several years on tiger conservation before joining IC-CFS
project as Johor State Liaison Officer for a year. She has
helped with several boot camps and enjoys the process of
teaching and sharing knowledge. She has an MSc degree from
the University of Kent, UK. |
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Joshua Pandong
Josh heads the WCS Malaysia team
doing research and education on orangutan in Sarawak and he has helped with many Boot Camps. He
has a masters degree from the University of
Adelaide. |
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Low Chee Pheng
Chee Pheng worked with WCS Malaysia on
tiger surveys in Johor for several years and she was a
regular instructor on Boot Camps. She was awarded a
Fulbright Scholarship and followed a masters program at
State University of New York (SUNY) in Syracuse. She's now
back in Malaysia. |
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Lukmann Haqeem bin Alen
("Bob") Bob worked for WCS-Malaysia
Program where he led the field surveys of orangutan in
Sarawak. He has now moved to do field research with the WWF programme in Sarawak. He has helped in many Boot Camps since 2012.
He holds an MSc in Statistical Ecology from St Andrews
University, UK. |
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Sylvia Ng
Sylvia works for WCS-Malaysia Program.
She is part of the orangutan conservation unit and also does
urban conservation education. She has experienced a few Boot Camps and
loves the idea that wildlife statistics should be fun. She
recently completed an MSc in Social Research at Edinburgh
University, UK. |
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Dusit
Ngoprasert ("Soy") Soy has worked for both WCS and WWF in
Thailand. He is now a lecturer and researcher in the
Conservation Ecology Programme at King Mongkut's University
of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), Thailand. His doctoral thesis was on
the ecology of bears in Thailand. |
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Elangkumaran Sagtia Siwan ("Elan") Elan is a member of WWF
Malaysia's tiger team, monitoring tigers in the centre and
north of Peninsula Malaysia. He is also working on a masters
project on elephants in the same area. |
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Christopher
Wong Chris is also a member of WWF Malaysia's tiger
monitoring team. And he is working on a masters project too,
in this case on tapirs. |
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Tan Win Sim
After chasing after owls, sea ducks and LBJs in North
America for two years, Win Sim worked on tiger research for the WCS
Malaysia Program. He has a honors degree in Wildlife
Ecology from University of Wisconsin-Madison and has just
completed a masters degree at Edinburg University, UK. |
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Akchousanh
Rasphone Akchou is part of the WCS Lao Program team
working on carnivores in Lao. She recently completed
a DPhil degree with the WildCRU group at the University of
Oxford, UK, and is now back in Lao. |
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Sri Rao
Sri works for the Tropical Rainforest Conservation &
Research Centre, TRCRC, under a 1-year grant focusing on CFS
work in Perak, Kelantan and Terengganu. He was formerly Operations Manager for Rimba's Harimau Selamanya
work. He has a masters degree in Endangered Species Recovery
& Conservation. |
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Song Wee Liang Neo Wee is a wildlife researcher working on
tiger conservation in Pelindung. She previously worked for
WCS-Malaysia program tiger team in Johor and Pahang. She was
involved in several enforcement training events for
different agencies. She's now off to St Andrews University
to do their MSc programme in Statistical Ecology. |
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Irene Margareth RP (Areth) Areth is a co-founder of Sintas
Indonesia Foundation currently pursuing her PhD on
defaunation with DICE at University of Kent, UK. She's
interested in conservation of felids. |
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Shyamala Ratnayeke Shyamala is interested in several
aspects of species distributions and population genetics,
especially in relation to habitat and landscape
characteristics. Her field research includes work on toque
macaques and sloth bears in Sri Lanka, small mammals,
including carnivores, in Tanzania, coatis and raccoons in
the USA, and invasive snails and sun bears in Malaysia. |
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Colin Strine Colin set up the king cobra monitoring unit
at Sakaerat Research Station and formerly lectured at Suranaree
University of Technology, Thailand. He is now based in USA. |
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Jeevan Rai Jeevan worked for Friends of Nature Nepal for
several years, mostly in the mid-hill forests of Nepal where
he studied canids and small carnivores using camera traps
and sign surveys. He holds an MSc degree in Environmental Science
from Tribhuvan University, Nepal, and an MSc in Statistical Ecology
from St Andrews University, UK. |
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Pang Sing Tyan Pang's background is in wildlife ecology
and animal nutrition. She is also interested in wildlife
ecotourism and scientific outreach programmes. |
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Choo Yan Ru
Yan Ru was a research assistant at National University of
Singapore, where he worked on leopards in Sri Lanka.
He recently completed the MSc in Statistical Ecology degree at St Andrews University,
UK, and has returned there to do a PhD. |
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Lungten Dorji
Lungten is doing a PhD at University of Southampton, UK, and
is currently posted to Wangchuck Centennial National Park in
Bhutan. |
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Ngwe Lwin
Ngwe is program manager for FFI in Myanmar and is a PhD
student at King Mongkut University, Thonburi, Thailand. |
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Sherub
Sherub works on bird movement ecology in Bhutan and is based
in UWICER. |
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Tashi Dhendup
Tashi is a research officer at UWICER. |
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Ugyen Penjor
Ugyen has just completed a DPhil at Oxford University, UK,
and is moving on to work for FFI in Cambridge. |
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Yadav Ghimirey
Yadav worked for a long time at Friends of Nature, Nepal, and is crazy about
clouded leopard and other felid species. He is now pursuing
a PhD at the University of Florida, USA.
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Ian Signer Ian is an expert on informal education methods,
especially in environmental education and interpretation. He
has been involved with the Boot Camps since 2009 and has
shaped the teaching methods we use. |
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Michael Meredith ("Mike")
Mike has been in SE Asia for over 30 years, mostly concerned with
park management, management planning and training of park
staff. He is Vice-Chair of BCSS and workshop coordinator. |