Conserving Biodiversity - Wildlife Reserves Singapore
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SHARING BEST PRACTICES AND CAPACITY BUILDING<br />
To share the best practices and to facilitate exchange of ideas among regional zoos in particular,<br />
WRS hosted a number of capacity-building workshops in recent years. By hosting such events,<br />
WRS hopes to be the catalyst in improving wildlife captive care standards and welfare, and<br />
enhancing wildlife conservation efforts in the region, which is among the richest in biodiversity.<br />
Number of participating zoos and agencies<br />
2011<br />
2010<br />
2008<br />
The Conservation of Asian Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles -<br />
Setting Priorities for the Next Ten Years<br />
(funded by WRSCF)<br />
The first Southeast<br />
Asian Animal Training &<br />
Enrichment Workshop<br />
The Asian Pangolin<br />
Conservation<br />
Workshop<br />
15<br />
20<br />
0 10 20 30 40<br />
39<br />
SHARING EXPERTISE THROUGH PUBLICATIONS<br />
Since 2002, a total of 170 papers, reports, book chapters and books authored or co-authored<br />
by WRS staff, guest researchers, students have been produced, of which 28 were published in<br />
scientific journals.<br />
YEAR TITLE AUTHOR INSTITUTION PROJECT<br />
TYPE<br />
1 2004 Can Proboscis Monkeys Be<br />
Successfully Maintained in<br />
Captivity? A Case of Swings and<br />
Roundabouts<br />
2 2004 Habitat use by Malay Tapir<br />
(Tapirus indicus) in West Sumatra,<br />
Indonesia<br />
3 2005 Population, diet and conservation<br />
of Malayan flying Lemurs in<br />
altered and fragmented habitats in<br />
<strong>Singapore</strong><br />
4 2005 Impact of fruit production cycles<br />
on Malayan sun bears and bearded<br />
pigs in lowland tropical forest of<br />
Sabah, Malaysian Borneo<br />
5 2005 Field study on the use of inactivated<br />
H5N2 vaccine in avian species<br />
Agoramoorthy G,<br />
Sam Alagappasamy<br />
and Minna.J. Hsu<br />
Wilson Novarino,<br />
Santi N Karimah,<br />
Jarulis,<br />
Muhammad Silmi,<br />
Muhammad Syafri<br />
G. Agoramoorthy,<br />
John Sha,<br />
Minna Hsu<br />
Siew Te Won,<br />
Christopher<br />
Servhee,<br />
Laurentius Ambu<br />
and Ahmad<br />
Norhayati<br />
Serena Oh, Paolo<br />
Martelli, Oh Soon<br />
Hock, Sonja Luz,<br />
Chris Furley<br />
6 2006 Proboscis monkey odyssey John Sha and Henry<br />
Bernard<br />
7 2006 Limestone Karsts of Southeast Asia:<br />
Imperiled Arks of <strong>Biodiversity</strong><br />
Reuben Clements,<br />
Navjot Sodhi,<br />
Menno Schilthuizen,<br />
and Peter Ng<br />
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<strong>Wildlife</strong><br />
<strong>Reserves</strong><br />
<strong>Singapore</strong><br />
Andalas<br />
University,<br />
Indonesia<br />
Tajen<br />
Institute of<br />
Technology,<br />
<strong>Singapore</strong><br />
Zoological<br />
Gardens,<br />
National<br />
Sun Yat-sen<br />
University<br />
University<br />
of Montana,<br />
Sabah <strong>Wildlife</strong><br />
Department,<br />
Universiti<br />
Kebangsaan<br />
Malaysia<br />
<strong>Wildlife</strong><br />
<strong>Reserves</strong><br />
<strong>Singapore</strong><br />
Universiti<br />
Malaysia<br />
Sabah<br />
National<br />
University of<br />
<strong>Singapore</strong>,<br />
Universiti<br />
Malaysia<br />
Sabah<br />
PUBLICATION<br />
TYPE<br />
Staff project Journal -<br />
Zoo Biology<br />
Funding<br />
support<br />
(regional)<br />
Journal - Tapir<br />
Conservation<br />
Staff project Journal -<br />
<strong>Biodiversity</strong> and<br />
Conservation<br />
Funding<br />
support<br />
(regional)<br />
Journal - Journal<br />
of Tropical<br />
Ecology<br />
Staff project Journal -<br />
Veterinary<br />
Record<br />
Funding<br />
support<br />
(regional)<br />
Funding<br />
support<br />
(regional)<br />
Article -<br />
Malaysian<br />
Naturalist<br />
Journal -<br />
BioScience
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