When we advertised the May Boot Camp held at SFC HQ, we had more applicants than we could accommodate, enough in fact for two Boot Camps in Sarawak. The second was held at UNIMAS in August. We had 21 participants, 7 each from UNIMAS and from SFC, 3 from WWF-Malaysia, and 4 from overseas: Bangladesh,

We had been discussing plans for a workshop at CAWM since 2018, but the cost of flights between Malaysia and Tanzania were an obstacle. And then came Covid! In 2022 the ISEC conference was held in South Africa, so we grabbed the chance to go to Tanzania after the conference, and hence spread the cost

After the successful outing to Sunway, we played a home match in Kuching. Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC), the parks and wildlife agency for Sarawak, had a number of staff who wanted to attend the Boot Camp, and management helped to set it up. Twelve of the 20 participants were SFC staff, with the others coming

After two full years with no workshops of any kind thanks to Covid 19, and with some restrictions still in force in Malaysia, we made a tentative start with a Boot Camp at Sunway again. We kept it small, with only 15 participants and used a big function room at the University, so we had

Our Boot Camp at Sunway seems to be an annual event now. Again it was fully booked, with a big group from Universiti Putra Malaysia, and many from overseas, including Cambodia, India and Indonesia. Instructor team: Wee, Khalis, Chris, Elan, Ngumbang and Mike.

We began 2020 by revisiting UNIMAS, where we had last run a workshop in 2013. It was amazing to think how much the Boot Camp has changed since then! We had 23 participants, with a strong contingent of UNIMAS postgrads as well as researchers from other organizations in Sarawak, Sabah, and as far away as

For our third Boot Camp in Bhutan organised by UWICER we returned to their campus at Lamai Goempa, Bumthang, close to 3000m in the Himalayas. We had a full complement of 24 participants, mostly UWICER or Forest Department but with folks from Bangladesh, India and Nepal. The workshop was funded by the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Centre. Instructor team: Tashi

SUT hosted another Thai workshop this year, with logistics provided by Sakaerat Field Station. Participants included researchers from Sakaerat, Free the Bears, and Sintas Foundation (Indonesia), as well as postgrad students from SUT, KMUTT, Mahidol, Batambang and Naresuan Universities in Thailand, and Florida, Singapore and SE Norway Universities. Instructor team: Ngumbang, Lukmann (Bob), Colin.