Bootcamp

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.

Our first workshop in Myanmar was at Mandalay University, run in cooperation with FFI Myanmar, WWF Myanmar and BANCA (Biodiversity And Nature Conservation Association). We had faculty and postgrads from Mandalay, Yangon and Pathein Universities and National University of Singapore; researchers from FFI, WWF and BANCA; and government staff. Instructor team: Ngumbang, Dusit, Colin.

In January 2019 we were back at  Sunway University. for our annual Boot Camp in Kuala Lumpur. The 23 participants included 6 from universities in Philippines and others from Indonesia and Singapore. Researchers from government, WWF and WCS also came. Instructor team: Ngumbang, Win Sim, Chris, Wee, Elan, Pang and Mike.

This was a 6-day workshop organised at the National University of Singapore by members of the Biology Department. We had 16 participants, mostly with some connection to NUS with a wide range of research interests beyond the classic topics of animal distribution and abundance. During the first 3 days we covered the basics of simulations

Our first Boot Camp in Nepal was organised by Friends of Nature Nepal with financial support from USAID funded Hariyo Ban Program through WWF Nepal. We were based at Bojinee Nagarkot Resort, on a hillside about 1 hour from Kathmandu. We had 24 participants, mostly Nepali but with folks from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and US.  Instructor team: Jeevan,

Another Boot Camp using the excellent facilities of SUT, with the support of the Sakaerat Field Station. We had 22 participants, with a big contingent from SUT and Sakaerat and other Thai universities, but others from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Tanzania.  Instructor team:  Colin, Dusit, Jeevan, Ngumbang, Shyamala and Mike.

The ATBC held their global meeting in Kuching in July 2018, and we ran a Boot Camp as a pre-meeting activity. The venue was the Harbour View Hotel in down-town Kuching. We had 22 participants from a wide range of counties, mostly coming for the ATBC meeting, but with several from UNIMAS.  Instructor team:  Chee