PPTC research in Tasik Chini has led lake research at the national level in an interdisciplinary effort to generate the information much needed by decision-makers in Pahang State and the Federal government, business, and in vulnerable sectors and communities. Our initial research has been focused on flora, fauna, water quality, and community, which have been in line with the Strategic Plan for the Convention on Biological Diversity. Its variability and its value have provided goods and services as a freshwater ecosystem, soil, and climate stability that underpin sustainable development in Tasik Chini.

The baseline data have been collected in 2010 to ensure the biodiversity databank at a local level. With the inception of Tasik Chini as the network in the Biosphere Reserve, research has been towards integrated inter and multi-disciplinary. The MAB programme emphasis the social sciences with biodiversity for sustainable development and conservation of resources in its biosphere reserve. The community and the culture of the local community here in Tasik Chini have not been given enough emphasis.

A new group of socioeconomic scientists have joined the biodiversity and science group to ensure that an overall relationship between people and their environment is checked and balanced. Conflicts between development and its impact on the community need to be studied. The biosphere programme encourages all their networks to conserve for tomorrow’s world, thus increasing people’s ability to manage efficiently their biosphere natural resources for the well being of the community and the environment.

Such integrated research has been supported by the Ministry of Education (FRGS and LRGS grants). The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MAB, fish conservation grants), Malaysian National Commission for UNESCO (awareness funds), ECERDC (development).