Bootcamp

We ran a Boot Camp at the National University of Singapore as a post-conference event following the joint ATBC-SCB ConservationAsia conference.  Instructor team: Ngumbang, Lukmann (“Bob”), Mike.

We have had lots of Indonesians at our workshops in Malaysia, but this was our first foray into Indonesia. It was organised by Copenhagen Zoo, who have a project at Baluran National Park, at the NE tip of Java. Participants were field researchers working with NGOs (WCS, WWF, FFI, ZSL) or National Parks.  Instructor team: Ngumbang, Sylvia,

This Boot Camp had a very international flavour. Apart from lots of Malaysians and our neighbours from Indonesia and Singapore, we had participants from India, Hong Kong, Guam, Oman, and South Africa. Instructor team: Ngumbang, Horng, Sri, Win Sim, Fen, Mike

Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) hosted this Boot Camp. It was a big group: 24 participants, including a lot of UMT postgrads and wildlife researchers from Singapore and Sabah and Sarawak. Fortunately we had a good local team of assistant instructors.  Instructor team: Ngumbang, Fen, Mike, assisted by Reuben, Sam, Sri, Wai Yee.

WildTeam invited us to Bangladesh to run these workshops as part of their USAID-funded Bagh activity. The 21 Boot Camp participants included WildTeam staff and people from government and academia in Bangladesh, as well as from Bhutan, India and Nepal. Khulna is the jumping-off point for tourist visits to the Sundarbans, so WildTeam kindly laid on a

This was the second Boot Camp we ran for the Conservation Ecology Program at KMUTT. Most of the 20 participants were from KMUTT, with a few from other universities in Thailand and Myanmar. This time we had a new “Bayes first” approach to the Boot Camp: we introduce Bayesian concepts on Day 1 and leave the usual

The 2015 Annual Meeting of the ATBC Asia-Pacific Region was held in Phnom Penh, and they hosted a Boot Camp as a pre-meeting event. We had a full complement of 20 participants; mostly people based in Cambodia, but with people from Malaysia and Indonesia too. Instructor team: Ngumbang, Joshua, Mike.

This was a major gathering! We had planned a trainer-training workshop immediately before the Boot Camp, but the key resource person for that, Ian Signer, injured his knee and could not travel. So we had 7 trainee-trainers in the room, as well as 21 participants and 3 trainers.

The 2014 regional meeting for Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) was held in Malacca. We ran a post-meeting Boot Camp at the University of Nottingham Campus at Semenyih, just south of Kuala Lumpur. This was quite an international group: mostly Malaysians, but also people from India, Thailand, Japan, UK, Bangladesh, and Philippines.

This was our first workshop organised by the Conservation Ecology Program at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, just south of Bangkok. Most of the 23 participants were KMUTT people, but also other universities in Thailand as well as government and WCS Thailand. Our July workshops at KMUTT were to become an annual event.