Wildlife Conservation and Management
About Us
Research Interest
Our Team
Wildlife Conservation and Management research cluster formerly known as the Department of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences in 1982, and is now known as Wildlife Research Group (WRG). Our research focuses on solving the wildlife conflict issue, extinction, conservation, ecology and genetics as well as understanding the ecology of wildlife diseases.
- Wildlife Ecology (i.e. mammals, birds, herpetofauna, fish)
- Wildlife Management (conflict, in-situ, ex-situ)
- Systematics and Taxonomy
- Animal Behaviour
- Zoonotic Diseases
- Molecular Ecology
- Bioacoustics
- Animal Genetics and Breeding (i.e. ruminant animals)
Current Researchs
- Wildlife conflict management in Peninsular Malaysia
- Wildlife genetic conservation (primates, elephants, sun bears, gaur, tapirs, pheasants)
- Latest estimation techniques of wildlife populations in Taman Negara and Malaysian wildlife reserves
- Dietary ecology of birds and mammals using high-throughput sequencing
- Bats bioacoustics in Peninsular Malaysia
- Microbiomes of birds and mammals using next-generation sequencing
- Detection of variants A1 and A2 in cow's milk
- Extinction debt of island bats in Langkawi archipelago
- Community processes structuring assembly and disassembly of bat gut-microbial communities across a gradient of habitat degradation
- Establishing a wildlife-friendly plantation and empowering the local community and stakeholders in the plantation management.
- Developing One Health intervention strategies to break the chain of urban wildlife-associated zoonotic infections among residents living in urban centers
- Revisiting taxonomic differences of rodents based on skull specimens from zoological collections.
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