Our project involves capacity building of local communities. The indigenous Bateq helps to navigate across the vast jungles of Taman Negara Pahang, and we trained them to use our survey equipment and method and have now employed them as our permanent field assistants.
Our outreach program involves interactive activities with the younger generations, where we aim to enhance their knowledge and awareness in wildlife conservation.
Citizen science data helps identify important sites for future surveys, determine gibbon presence at sites that we cannot directly survey, and for sites that we do survey, assessing the usefulness of iNaturalist and social media reports for conservation monitoring.
Our aim is to coordinate primate-related studies and conservation work in Malaysia and to create opportunities for capacity building of young Malaysians
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