Reuben Clements – Page 12

You need passion for conservation: The Sun Daily interviews Reuben

Here’s a bit more media coverage featuring Reuben, as Malaysia’s The Sun Daily newspaper looks at careers in conservation. Ever considered getting into conservation, but got discouraged because you thought it didn’t hold much potential as a career? Or perhaps you know some bright young thing who’s interested in making conservation their lifelong goal?

monash talk — Reuben ponders his future in conservation

Reuben answers some questions on how he developed his interest in conservation and successfully built a career out of it. The take-home message? In order to do conservation, you need to have the passion for it. Follow your heart!

You can read the article here.

October 10, 2011August 9, 2017 by Rimba Categories: Home, Media coverage, Project UpdatesTags: conservation, media, Reuben Clements, Rimba, The Sun Daily Leave a comment

Rimba comments on the fate of limestone karsts in Pahang

Ever wonder what can happen to majestic limestone karsts like these in Malaysia?

Pristine limestone karsts, Bau, Sarawak. ©Rimba/Reuben

Good Times recently featured a story on the sad fate of the Panching limestone karsts in Pahang, Malaysia, and Rimba reseachers Reuben and Liew gave their two cents worth. You can read the article here.

Most of these karsts were formed millions of years ago and are now home to many endemic plants and animals. This review paper will tell just how special and imperiled these ecosystems are.

As our mission statement says, Rimba is not against economic pursuits such as limestone quarrying, but certain groups of karsts that have been isolated for millions of years should be spared from quarrying as they are likely to support many biologically unique organisms. Here’s another paper that talks about the factors that should be considered when companies are deciding on which karsts to quarry. It’s time to use science to make smart decisions and avoid losing very special organisms that the world will never see again.

September 23, 2011August 9, 2017 by Rimba Categories: Home, Media coverage, Project UpdatesTags: endemic, Good Times, karst, Liew Thor-Seng, limestone, Pahang, Panching, quarrying, Reuben Clements, Rimba Leave a comment

Photo update 4: What’s in the forest and what’s under the bridge?

Here’s a long overdue photo update on the species of mammals photographed by our Reconyx camera traps in the Kenyir Wildlife Corridor Project.

While other camera traps used by our friends in WWF-Malaysia have flash that captures award-winning photos of wildlife and allow you to identify animal individuals to get density estimates, covert cameras such as ours may decrease the likelihood of your camera being destroyed by irritable elephants or encroachers who want souvenirs – it all depends on the objective of your study. In this project, we are mainly interested to know the species present in the forests and the species utilising viaducts over fixed time periods.

Fortunately, these camera traps are password-protected and have built-in cameras that would be of no use to a thief. Our cameras have been out for 3 months in the forests and we are happy to report the cameras retrieved so far were healthy and dry. Here are photos of several interesting species recorded from the forests and beneath the viaducts. Enjoy!

Interesting mammals recorded in forests

Clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) © Rimba – Acik, Dahar, Paul, Reuben and William

For the rest of the photos… Continue reading →

July 14, 2011August 9, 2017 by Rimba Categories: Home, Photos, Project UpdatesTags: Asian elephant, Asian tapir, barking deer, camera-trap, clouded leopard, forest, golden cat, Kenyir Wildlife Corridor, leopard cat, mammal, Paul Henry, Reconyx, Reuben Clements, Rimba, serow, sun bear, viaduct, wild pig, William Yap 9 Comments