TAKE AWAY MESSAGES FROM ATTENDING IPS 2023

My take-away messages from attending IPS probably is the knowledge about community-based conservation, how to carry out ethnography in primate conservation, food provisioning, the power of collaboration and many more coexistence topic on primates and humans. All these topics would be very helpful to me as LPP is doing similar topics on our projects and we could have a better idea on how to execute with clear directions and goals. Since this was my first time joining a conference, it was a bit too overwhelming from attending different presentations, talks, discussions and felt clueless about my niche from seeing people around me was networking and making connections. Apart from those little challenges, I still had good times knowing few friends from the conference who gave me great advice and guidance which I really appreciate it. 

Lastly, my vision especially in advancing primatology in Malaysia is to have a high public awareness on primates and their conservation needs, having next generation of passionate primatologists, good quality research and case studies that will help in solving issues faced by community with wildlife in Malaysia, wider collaboration with organisations from different fields and more support from government for primatology research and conservation and probably can boost conservation field in Malaysia, value the country enriched with all natural resources.